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Uriel Acosta was born at Oporto, Portugal, in 1590. He was the son of a crypto-Jewish ecclesiastic and upon his father's death, the family went to Amsterdam and openly professed Judaism.
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Die Schriften des Uriel da Costa (German Edition)
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Uriel Acosta
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Hoping to return to the pristine faith of the Bible, Acosta denied the traditions of rabbinic law. He is the author of a book in Portuguese that denies the immortality of the soul. His heresy caused him to be arrested and fined by the city magistrates, who considered his doctrine neither Christian nor Jewish, and his book was publicly burned. Later he offered to submit to the synagogue but was unable to conform to accepted doctrine and was excommunicated. He lived in social isolation for seven years. He then capitulated to the synagogue again, but was banished for his heterodoxy. He committed suicide, leaving behind him the story of his life, Exemplar humanae vitae (1687; "A Specimen of Human Existence").
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A Specimen of Human Life
(This book contains Acosta's account of his own life, his ...)
- Die Schriften des Uriel da Costa (German Edition)
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A Specimen of Human Life
