Showing Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity by Rebecca Goldstein
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Betraying Spinoza In 1656, Amsterdam's Jewish community declared Baruch Spinoza excommunicated because he denied the immortality of the soul, the divinity of the scripture, and challenged the idea that the Torah was literally given by God. His writings remain as provocative today. Full description