 One of the ways in which Nathan of Gaza was able to persuade the Jewish community about Shabbetai Zevi and Sabbateanism was through his writings.He composed a variety of letters and other written documents that promoted an entirely new kind of theology, one that merged the current notions of Kabbalah (of the time) with elements of Lurianic mysticism, a subject that he studied when he was younger.In addition to creating a “new type” of mysticism, he also composed a document entitled "Derush ha-Tanninim" (“Treatise on Dragons”; published by Scholem in "be-Iqvot Mashiah" [Jerusalem, 1944]).