Keywords
Hungarian Jewish ultra-Orthodox worldview; Rabbi Akiva Yosef Schlesinger;
Abstract
This paper explains the eschatological concepts that were held by Hungarian Jewish ultra-Orthodox rabbis in the late 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th century. Understanding this messianic worldview might offer an intellectual background to comprehend the Hungarian-born Leopold Cohn, founder of Chosen People Ministries, an evangelistic mission to the Jewish people. At the end of the paper I would argue that there is commonality between the ideology of Hungarian ultra-Orthodoxy and pre-millennial dispensationalism, the ideology Cohn adopted after his conversion. Thus, there might have been some intellectual continuity between the different phases of his life.
Recommended Citation
Inbari, Motti
(2020)
"The eschatological worldview of Hungarian Jewish ultra-orthodoxy as possible background of influnce on Leopold Cohn,"
Journal of Messianic Jewish Studies: Vol. 3, Article 3.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.biola.edu/jmjs/vol3/iss1/3
