Ariel Hessayon is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of “Gold Tried in the Fire: The Prophet TheaurauJohn Tany and the English Revolution” (2007), as well as the co-editor of several collections of essays. Hessayon has also written extensively on a variety of early modern topics: anti-scripturism, book burning, communism, environmentalism, esotericism, extra-canonical texts, heresy, crypto-Jews, Judaizing, millenarianism, mysticism, prophecy and religious radicalism.