JewishMessiahClaimants

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Religious leader, Jewish Messiah
This article presents an overview of various historically significant Jewish Messiah claimants. For general information see Jewish Messiah and also...
Jacob Frank

Jacob Frank

male, deceased (1791)
king david, Frankism, Jewish Messiah, messianic, Hassidism, christian bible…Jewish Polish history, Jewish person, JewishMessiahclaimants
Jacob Frank was an 18th century Jewish religious leader who claimed to be the reincarnation of the self-proclaimed messiah Sabbatai Zevi, and also...
Sabbatai Zevi

Sabbatai Zevi

male, deceased (1676)
turkish, Non-traditional Kabbalah, charismatic religious leader, morea, kabbalist, rabbi…Jewish person, JewishMessiahclaimants, Jewish Messiah
Sabbatai Zevi, was a Jewish rabbi and Kabbalist who claimed to be the long-awaited Jewish Messiah. He was the founder of the Jewish Sabbatean...

Moses Botarel

male
Christian, Geronimo de Santa Fé, Jewish person, Maestro Juan, messiah, elijah…JewishMessiahclaimants
Moses Botarel was a Spanish scholar who lived in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. He was a pupil of Jacob Sefardi (the Spaniard), who...

Athronges

male
Rebel, ancient rome, messiah, Jewish person, romans, JewishMessiahclaimants…Jewish-Roman wars
Athronges was a leader of the Jews during the insurrection under Herod Archelaus. A shepherd, in common with his four brothers after proclaiming...

Judah ben Shalom

male
hebrew, mori, Yemenite Jew, Yemenite, JewishMessiahclaimants, Jew of Yemen
Judah ben Shalom (Hebrew: יהודה בן שלום), also known as Mori (Master) Shooker Kohail II or Shukr Kuhayl II (Hebrew: מרי שכר כחיל), was a Yeme...

Shukr Kuhayl I

male
yemen, mari, Imam, messiah, cyrus, book of isaiah…JewishMessiahclaimants, Jewish Messiah
Shukr ben Salim Kuhayl I or Mari (Master) Shukr Kuhayl I was a Yemenite messianic pretender of the 19th century. He initially revealed himself in...

Jacob ben Nathanael

male
maimonides, Petah Tikvah, Sefer ha-Galui, Solomon ha-Kohen, Studien und Mittheil, Iggeret Teman…JewishMessiahclaimants, Jewish person
Jacob ben Nathanael ibn al-Fayyumi was a "rosh yeshiva" of the Yemenite Jews in the second half of the twelfth century CE. All that is known of him...