The Wikipedia Article I selected to edit is entitled Sabbateans. This particular article lacks primarily in sources. It is not so much that the particular sections are inaccurate but rather that their claims are not cited at any points. I know that with the knowledge I gain from the book I've chosen for the analytical paper along with a handful of other sources, I will be more than capable of reconstructing this particular page to a more comprehensive, factual overview of Sabbatai Zevi's history and his endeavors.
The sources I will be using are as follows:
- Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah (1626-1676) by Gershom Scholem
- Chapter 7: After the Apostasy
- Chapter 8: The Last Years of Sabbatai Sevi
- Jacobs, Martin. “An Ex-Sabbatean's Remorse? Sambari's Polemics against Islam.” The Jewish Quarterly Review, vol. 97, no. 3, 2007, pp. 347–378. www.jstor.org/stable/25470213.
-KAHANA, MAOZ. “The Allure of Forbidden Knowledge: The Temptation of Sabbatean Literature for Mainstream Rabbis in the Frankist Moment, 1756-1761.” The Jewish Quarterly Review, vol. 102, no. 4, 2012, pp. 589–616. www.jstor.org/stable/41681764
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–There is a pretty comprehensive article in English: Sabbatai Zevi, which draws heavily on Scholem, I am sure. The online sources you found are not very good. Don't use them. You need to find a specific section in the article that you want to edit. Prof. Bitzan Amos26 (talk) 18:42, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
Outline for Sabbateans Edits.
- I plan to edit two sections of the article primarily through adding citations and minor grammatical changes.
The first section I will edit will be Sabbateans who remained Jews
- While this section focuses on the reaction of Sabbateans post Sabbatai's conversion to Islam, it inefficiently explains which historians concluded that his followers eventually began to follow Hasidism. For this particular section, I will be able to cite Chapter 7 of Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah along with the article Martin Jacobs's article regarding 'An Ex-Sabbatean's Remorse'
The second section that I plan to edit will be Disillusioned Jewish Sabbateans
- The primary source that I will use to reconstruct this particular section will be an article by Maoz Kahana entitiled The Allure of Forbidden Knowledge: The Temptation of Sabbatean Literature for Mainstream Rabbis in the Frankist Moment. Use of this article will assist in explaining the reaction of Sabbatai's followers and opponents post his conversion to Islam and will also help to explain why his conversion was highly regarded by his followers as part of his messianic scheme.