Abstract
The present paper deals with the Iberian context of the production-translation of a text in Portuguese language about Shabbatai Zevi, in 1666. We refer the production of similar texts and the information about the adherents in Spain, mostly in Malaga. We reflect on the various messsianic currents that crossed the different social groups in Portugal. We present a text that proves the spreading of news about Shabbatai in Portuguese Lands, and the interest kindled among the Portuguese Conversos. And we place the hypothesis that this text to the movement of Shabbatai, could have different readings, among them one that could be convenient to the conversos.
Highlights
We refer the production of similar texts and the information about the adherents in Spain, mostly in Malaga
We reflect on the various messianic currents that crossed the different social groups in Portugal
We present a text that proves the spreading of news about Shabbatai in Portuguese Lands, and the interest kindled among the Portuguese Conversos
Summary
A adesão de alguns cristãos-novos, como os de Málaga, ao movimento de Sabbatai, foi de tal forma intenso que, como verificámos pelo processo de Da Mariana, não se escusavam a apropriar-se de textos contrários como o do «ressuscitado Natan Levi», transpondo muito possivelmente para o seu ideário aquilo que era interessante porque importante: o carácter fantasista e maravilhoso do Messias e do Povo que o seguia, e de que eles –conversos portugueses em Espanha– faziam parte.
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