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 Immortalidade Da Alma
Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-90-04-09923-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 594 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1225 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Da Costa, Uriel

Weitere Mitwirkende

da Silva, Semuel

Salomon, H.P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

H.P. Salomon, Doctor in Letters (1988), University of Nijmegen, teaches the Portuguese, French and Dutch literatures and Languages at the State University of New York in Albany. He has published extensively on the Portuguese New Christians, including Portrait of a New Christian (Paris, Gulbenkian, 1982).

I.S.D. Sassoon was educated in his native England and in Israel. He teaches Rabbinics and Bible at the Institute for Traditional Judaism in Westchester (N.Y.). He is at present preparing for publication a commentary on the Pentateuch.