ṢULḤ BEHTAR AST [PEACE IS BETTER]. By Mohammad RezaKazempur. Tehran, Iran: Nashr Motakhassesan, 2024. Pp. 100. Paper, 820,000 IRR.

pointing out that opposition to mainstream thought can later be flipped and viewed positively.Michaelson's use of queer theory and his philological and textual analysis advances scholarship on Frank, Sabbateanism, and Jewish mysticism more broadly.However, one walks away from this book with many more questions than answers.Was Frank a true believer, a charlatan, or a nihilist?How did he relate to his followers and vice versa?Is there a logic to ZSP, and if so, how did it reflect its author and, in turn, its audience?Michaelson's systematic appendix on ZSP and the state of relevant scholarship indicates there is a way to navigate these questions and so much more, but he seems to prefer to leave Frank as an idea reflecting the seismic shift in European Jewish thought and society between then and now.Of course, as the book's title indicates, Michaelson set out to elucidate the idea of Frank's heresy, not Frank himself or the totality and evolution of his thought.