Not a Prophet
Alexander Bevilacqua: Black Jewish Messiah?, 18 July 2024
Diary of a Black Jewish Messiah: The 16th-Century Journey of David Reubeni through Africa, the Middle East and Europe
by Alan Verskin.
Stanford, 189 pp., £23.99, January 2023,978 1 5036 3443 5 Show More
by Alan Verskin.
Stanford, 189 pp., £23.99, January 2023,
“... way of speaking). It’s now available to Anglophone readers in unabridged form, translated by Alan Verskin, who has also produced a detailed introduction and notes. The first mention of the diary is in an Inquisition document from 1639. There was also a copy in the 19th-century collection of a Jewish bibliographer in Frankfurt. On his death the copy ... ”
