Jacob Frank's 'Book of the Words of the Lord'

This book is concerned with the exceptional history and unprecedented
thought of Jacob Frank (1726-1791), a Messianic antinomistic
Jewish-Moslem-Christian leader, active in the second half of the 18th
Century in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Othman empire, Moravia
and Germany. Frank grew up in the Doenme circles in Salonika (Doenme was
the Turkish name of the Moslem-Jews who were followers of the messianic
leader Sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676), who was forced to become a Moslem. His
followers decided to convert to Islam in 1683 in order to live separate
Jewish messianic life). Frank defined himself in his mythical
autobiography, known as The Words of the Lord as a chosen
messianic Leader and as an anarchist visionary who decided to cross
every border and to destroy every book, law and order. His anarchistic
behavior as well as his broad social influence caused a persistent
rabbinic persecution and excommunication that brought Jacob Frank and
his thousands followers to undertake a mess conversion to Christianity
in 1759-1760.