Second printing 1990
A Study Conference in Honour of the Eightieth Birthday of Gershom Scholem, held 4–5 December 1977.
Contents: Y. Zakovich, 'A Poor Man Riding on a Donkey (Zech 9:9-10)'; A. Greenwald, 'From Sunup to Sundown: On the Nature of Eschatology and Messianism in Judaism'; S. Rosenberg, 'The Return to Paradise: Notes on the History of the Idea of Restorationist Redemption in Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy'; Y. Liebes, 'The Messiah of the Zohar: On the Messianic Character of R. Shimon bar Yohai'; M. Piekarz, 'The Messianic Idea at the Time of the Emergence of Hasidism as Reflected in Books of Sermons and Moral Instruction'; G. Scholem, 'Concluding Remarks.'