The Jewish Messiahs
From the Galilee to Crown Heights
Harris Lenowitz
Reviews and Awards
"The Jewish Messiahs is a detailed academic work that will be most useful to students of Jewish history and thought."--Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"This is the first text in English that focuses on primary texts relating to messianism as an active force in Jewish history...Lenowitz's study enriches the material available in English documenting messianic activism in Jewish experience. This material, and the provocative interpretation framing it, may point the way to studies comparing Christian and Muslim millenarian movements, and to further probing of the Jewish sources."--The Jewish Quarterly Review
"Rare sources are translated here, providing new insights into figures known primarily from the work of Gershom Scholem. Lenowitz has synthesized and presented in an accessible and reliable form many such texts, making this volume the standard English-language handbook on the subject."--Religious Studies Review
"Whereas we deal mostly with Jesus as Christian Messiah, theological entity, artistic representation, etc., Harris Lenowitz, professor of Hebrew, provides a different and thought-provoking context to messianism and the concept of messiah...In addition to the academic merits of the book, Lenowitz produces genuine pleasure for the reader with his choice of translations by others and his own rendering of messiah texts. These translations evoke the emotion and mystery surrounding these mythical figures with their hazy beginnings and seemingly futile ends."--Sixteenth Century Journal
