ISBN:
9789004246973
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 578 pages)
,
illustrations
Year of publication:
1993
Series Statement:
Brill's studies in intellectual history v. 44
Uniform Title:
Exame das tradições phariseas conferidas com á lei escrita
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Examination of Pharisaic Traditions: Exame das tradições phariseas. Facsimile of the Unique Copy in the Royal Library of Copenhagen. Supplemented by Semuel da Silva's Treatise on the Immortality of the Soul. Tratado da immortalid
Keywords:
Judaism Early works to 1800
;
Immortality Early works to 1800 Judaism
;
Judaism Apologetic works
;
Early works to 1800
Abstract:
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Exame Das Tradiçoes Phariseas /Uriel Jurista Hebreo and Semvel da Silva -- Examination of Pharisaic Traditions /'Uri'el HEBREW Jurist and Semu'el da Silva -- Treatise on the Immortality of the Soul /Semu'el da Silva -- Appendix 1: Transcription of Document Handwritten and Signed by Uriel da Costa at Coimbra, October 8 1601 -- Appendix 2: Transcription of minutes of May 15 1623 meeting of delegates from three sephardic congregations concerning the arrival at Amsterdam of Uriel da Costa -- Appendix 3: Uriel da Costa's own account of his life (Exemplar humanae vitae), englished by John Whiston (London, 1740) -- Index of Biblical References -- Index of Proper Names -- Index of Subject Matters.
Abstract:
Da Costa's long-lost book rejects the divine origin of the rabbinic tradition. His insight was that what he calls Pharisaism is irreconcilable with the religion of the Pentateuch and therefore cannot derive from the same source. He claims, for example, that the Law of Moses does not allow for a belief in an afterlife for individual human beings. Concomitantly he denied the Mosaic origin of the notion of eternal punishment. The rabbinic reading of the Mosaic Law appeared to him almost as great a falsification as the Christian one. Yet there could be no reversion to Christianity and despite his deep rift with the synagogue he still believed in ultimate redemption for the Jewish people. As he so dramatically declares in his closing sonnet, Israel's rehabilitation depends on its shedding man-made doctrines, and holding fast to the Law in its purity
Note:
"Supplemented by Semuel da Silva's Treatise on the immortality of the soul = Tratado da immortalidade da alma."
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
DOI:
10.1163/9789004246973
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