Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza

Shabbetai Zevi - The Mystical Messiah (1x22)

Air date: Dec 19, 2005

This lecture examines the explosion of millenarian fervor within the Jewish community that is focused on the frenzied behavior of a self-proclaimed messiah named Shabbetai Zevi, whose nihilistic ideology proves to have wide appeal.