Editing Millennialism (section)

== Judaism ==
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Millennialist thinking first emerged in [[Jewish apocrypha|Jewish apocryphal literature]] of the tumultuous [[Second Temple period]],<ref>
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{{cite book |last1=Tabor |first1=James D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zgUTDAAAQBAJ |title=The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2011 |isbn=9780190611941 |editor1-last=Wessinger |editor1-first=Catherine |editor1-link=Catherine Wessinger |edition=reprint |series=Oxford Handbooks |location=New York |publication-date=2016 |page=254 |chapter=13: Ancient Jewish and Early Christian Millennialism |quote=Millennialism, as it developed in emerging forms of Judaism around 200 B.C.E., was a response to a much older conceptual problem and a specific historical crisis brought on by a program of Hellenization initiated by the Macedonian ruler, Antiochus IV (r. 175–164 B.C.E.), a successor of Alexander the Great (256–323 B.C.E.), who had conquered Syria-Palestine in 332 B.C.E. |author-link1=James Tabor |access-date=2019-02-05 |via=[[Google Books]]}}
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[[Gershom Scholem|Gerschom Scholem]] profiles medieval and early modern Jewish millennialist teachings in his book ''Sabbatai Sevi, the mystical messiah'', which focuses on the 17th-century movement centered on the self-proclaimed messiahship (1648) of [[Sabbatai Zevi]]<ref>
Gerschom Scholem, ''Sabbatai Sevi, the mystical messiah'' (London: Routledge, 1973). Scholem also gives examples of other Jewish millennialist movements.
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