Prophetic text
The Hope of Israel
Menasseh ben Israel
Reinterprets Isaiah and Ezekiel as a future reunion of dispersed tribes, distinguishes Josephite and Davidic messiahs, rejects knowledge of the precise date while arguing redemption is near, and connects expulsions and collective suffering with scriptural curses. American Israelite ancestry remains the author's claim.
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Edition and location
1652 English text reset in Lucien Wolf, ed., Menasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell (Macmillan/Jewish Historical Society of England, 1901); Project Gutenberg 62562, 2020, updated 2024
Sections 24–32, printed pp. 41–49