The History of Sabatai Sevi, the Suppos'd Messiah of the Jews

by John Evelyn

NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION

[1] Michael Fixler, Milton and the Kingdoms of God (London, 1964), p. 244.

[2] Joseph Kastein, The Messiah of Ismir, trans. Huntley Paterson (New York, 1931), p. 323.

[3] For an account of the events leading to the extra-judicial opinion of Glyn and Steele, see Samuel R. Gardiner, History of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660, III (London, 1901), 216-222.

[4] Milton and the Kingdoms of God (London, 1964), especially pp. 237-249.

[5] Heinrich Graetz, History of the Jews, V (Philadelphia, 1895), 118-167. See also Henry Malter, "Shabetai Zebi B. Mordecai," The Jewish Encyclopedia, X (1905).

[6] Kastein, p. 77.

[7] For a provocative study of apocalypse in fiction, see Frank Kermode, The Sense of An Ending (Oxford, 1966).

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