The founder of a major Jewish messianic movement: a seventeenth century Ottoman rabbi who declared himself the Messiah, drew a mass following across the Jewish world from the Ottoman Empire to Poland and beyond, and whose eventual conversion to Islam under pressure from the Ottoman authorities left a lasting and divisive mark on Jewish messianic expectation, on rabbinic responses to messianic claimants generally, and on the small communities of continuing followers descended from his movement in the centuries afterward.
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1. Wikipedia: Messianic Judaism
WikipediaWikipedia Messianic Judaism, lead section, origin statement
It emerged in the United States between the 1960s and 1970s from the earlier Hebrew Christian movement, and was most prominently propelled through the non-profit organization Jews for Jesus founded in 1973 by Martin "Moishe" Rosen, an American minister in the Conservative Baptist Association.
Wikipedia Messianic Judaism, lead section, era statement
It emerged in the United States between the 1960s and 1970s from the earlier Hebrew Christian movement, and was most prominently propelled through the non-profit organization Jews for Jesus founded in 1973 by Martin "Moishe" Rosen, an American minister in the Conservative Baptist Association.
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