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Gershom Scholem earned international renown as a brilliant interpreter of esoteric religious texts as well as a trenchant contributor to many of the central intellectual debates of his day. At a time when apocalyptic impulses are intensifying with the approach of a millennial moment in the Christian calendar, we can only welcome Scholem's soberly presented and scrupulously researched account of their Jewish counterpart.Gershom Scholem is the author of 'The Messianic Idea in Judaism: And Other Essays on Jewish Spirituality', published 1995 under ISBN 9780805210439 and ISBN 0805210431.
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