Mark: The Scroll of Secrets (2010)

In April Academic Studies Press published Zvi Mark‘s “The Scroll of Secrets: The Hidden Messianic Vision of R. Nachman of Breslav“. You can read reviews/blurbs on the Publisher’s site.  The announcing email included information about the book and its author and the table of contents too.

Description:

Concealed for two centuries and known only to a select individual in
each generation, the Scroll of Secrets is the hidden Messianic vision
of R. Nachman of Bratslav. Despite being written in an encoded
language, with acronyms and abbreviations, after a clarification and
cautious reconstruction of what can be decoded, the reader is
presented with an exalted Messianic vision. The book marks a turning
point in our knowledge of R. Nachman’s spiritual world, and initiates
a renewed discussion of an intriguing Hasidism that excites scholars
and broad circles within the Jewish and Israeli publics.  The reader
is presented with a sublime and enticing vision of the eschatological
End of Days that contains song and prayer, Torah, melodies and
longings, and love and compassion for every man.

About the Author:

Dr. Zvi Mark is a Senior Lecturer at Bar-Ilan University and a
Research Fellow of Shalom  Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. His
previous publications include Mysticism and Madness; The Religious
Thought of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (Continuum, London and New York,
2009) and numerous articles examining the esoterica of Bratslav Hasidism.

Table of Contents:

Introduction by Shaul Magid.
Translator’s Introduction.
Foreword.
Section 1
The Scroll of Secrets.
Opening Scroll.

Section 2
Deciphering the Tepliker Manuscript.

Section 3
Chapter One – The Messiah as a Breslavian Tzadik: Made in the Image of R. Nachman.
Chapter Two – The Messiah as Baby and Child in the Scroll.
Chapter Three – The Nature of the World in Messianic Times.
Chapter Four – The Temple.
Chapter Five – King Solomon and the Scroll’s Messiah.
Chapter Six – Is There a Secret Belief that R. Nachman Never Died or Will Return from the Dead?
Chapter Seven – The Scroll in Light of the Other Secret Writings of R. Nachman.
Chapter Eight – The Scroll as Esoterica: Social and Spiritual Aspects of the Sanctified Secret.
Chapter Nine – The Messianic Revolution and the Echoes of the Scrolls among the Breslav Chasidim Today.
Chapter Ten – Epilogue.

Appendix One.
Appendix Two: Further Testimony on the Scroll and its Transmission.
Appendix Three: The Manuscripts.
Appendix Four: R. Avraham Chazan on the Scroll of Secrets: The  Sichot Me’anash Manuscript.
Appendix Five: The Return of the Baal Shem Tov as the Messiah.
Appendix Six: Where is the Golden Tree?
Bibliography.
Index.