Sabbatianism
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- (Judaism) A Jewish messianic movement of the 17th century, centred around Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676).
- 1971, Gershom Scholem, translated by unknown, The Messianic Idea in Judaism and other Essays on Jewish Spirituality:
- Sabbateanism is the matrix of every significant movement to have emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, from Hasidism, to Reform Judaism, to the earliest Masonic circles and revolutionary idealism.