Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition

Jewish Millennial Expectations (1x13)

Air date: Jan 01, 2002

The impact on Jewish religious life of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the works of Isaac Abravanel and other important Jewish millenarian thinkers, and the life of Sabbatai Sevi, whose proclamation as the Messiah created great disturbances among the Sephardic Jews in the mid-17th century.