Sabbatianism

English

Alternative forms

• Sabbateanism

Etymology

Sabbatian +‎ -ism

Noun

Sabbatianism (uncountable)

1. (Judaism) A Jewish messianic movement of the 17th century, centred around Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676).
   • 1971, Gershom Scholem, translated by unknown, The Messianic Idea in Judaism and other Essays on Jewish Spirituality:

     Sabbateanism is the matrix of every significant movement to have emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, from Hasidism, to Reform Judaism, to the earliest Masonic circles and revolutionary idealism.