DESCRIPTION: Write an essay providing the reasons why the Israelites may have thought that Shabbetai Tsevi was the messiah, and provide the reasons why he couldn’t have been, based on the text, The Making of a Modern Jewish Dissent (Two): Shabbetai Tsevi Idel, Messianic Mystics, 183—211 (and one other outside source) — In the 17th […]