TY - BOOK ID - 3033997 TI - Examination of Pharisaic traditions = Exame das tradicoes phariseas : facsimile of the unique copy in the Royal Library of Copenhagen AU - Acosta, Uriel AU - Salomon, H. P. AU - Sassoon, I. S. D. AU - Kongelige Bibliotek (Denmark) PY - 1993 VL - 44 SN - 09208607 SN - 9004099239 9004246975 9789004099234 PB - Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Judaism KW - Immortality KW - Early works to 1800 KW - 296*712 KW - 237.2 KW - -Judaism KW - -Immortality KW - -Jews KW - Religions KW - Semites KW - Jews KW - Life after death KW - Eschatology KW - Future life KW - Immortalism KW - Farizeeën KW - Onsterfelijkheid van de ziel KW - Apologetic works KW - -Early works to 1800 KW - Religion KW - -Farizeeën KW - 237.2 Onsterfelijkheid van de ziel KW - 296*712 Farizeeën KW - -237.2 Onsterfelijkheid van de ziel KW - Judaism - Early works to 1800 KW - Immortality - Judaism - Early works to 1800 KW - Judaism - Apologetic works - Early works to 1800 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3033997 AB - 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. ER -