Bibliography: Messiah Idea in Jewish Thought

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Greenstone, Julius. The Messiah Idea in Jewish History (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1906).

Hartman, David. "Discussion of Maimonides's Epistle to Yemen" in A. S. Halkin (trans.), Crisis and Leadership: Epistles of Maimonides (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1985): 150-207.

Hartman, David. "Sinai and Messianism," in his Joy and Responsibility (Jerusalem: Posner, 1983): 232-58.

Kellner, Menachem. "Gersonides on Miracles, the Messiah and Resurrection," Da'at 4 (1980): 5-34.

Kellner, Menachem. "Jews and their Messiahs," London Jewish Quarterly 41 (Autumn, 1994).

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Klausner, Joseph. The Messianic Idea in Israel (New York: Macmillan, 1955).

Novak, David. "Maimonides' Concept of the Messiah," Journal of Religious Studies 9 (1982): 42-50.

Patai, Raphael. The Messiah Texts (New York: Avon, 1979).

Ravitzky, Aviezer. Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).

Ravitzky, Aviezer. “’To the Utmost of Human Capacity’: Maimonides on the Days of the Messiah,” in Joel Kramer (ed.) Perspectives on Maimonides (London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1991): 221-256.

Sarachek, Joseph. The Doctrine of the Messiah in Medieval Jewish Literature (New York: Hermon Press, 1968).

Scholem, Gershom. "Towards an Understanding of the Messianic Idea in Judaism," in The Messianic Idea in Judaism (New York: Schocken, 1971): 1-36.

Schwarzschild, Steven S. "A Note on the Nature of Ideal Society -- A Rabbinic Study," in Strauss and Reissner (eds.), Jubilee Volume Dedicated to Curt C. Silberman (New York: Association of Jews from Central Europe, 1969): 86-15; reprinted in M. Kellner (ed.), The Pursuit of the Ideal: Jewish Writings of Steven Schwarzschild (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990): 99-108.

Schwarzschild, Steven S. "The Personal Messiah: Toward the Restoration of a Discarded Doctrine," Judaism 5 (1956): 123-35; reprinted in M. Kellner (ed.), The Pursuit of the Ideal: Jewish Writings of Steven Schwarzschild (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990): 15-28.

Schwarzschild, Steven S. "On Jewish Eschatology," in F. Greenspahn (ed.), The Human Condition in the Jewish and Christian Traditions (New York: Ktav, 1985); reprinted in M. Kellner (ed.), The Pursuit of the Ideal: Jewish Writings of Steven Schwarzschild (Albany: SUNY Press, 1990): 209-28.

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