Question
This event may have been a response to its target getting declared an orphan to discharge his father’s debts. In 2021, Johns Hopkins’s Yitzhak Melamed was barred from filming a documentary about this event in a statement labeling its subject an epicouros. A David Ives play about this event cuts from an interrogation to a tavern scene featuring the music teacher Clara Van den Enden. This event occurred 17 years after a similar one in which Uriel da Costa was forced to symbolically lie down in a doorway. Steven (*) Nadler argued that this event was prompted by a man’s rejection of the immortality of the soul. In this event, its target received a writ of herem (“HAIR-em”) condemning his “monstrous deeds,” forcing him to take up a career in lens-grinding. For 10 points, identify this 1656 event, in which the author of Tractatus Theologico-Politicus was ostracized from the Jewish community of Amsterdam. ■END■
Buzzes
Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 12 | 92% | 17% | 33% | 125.36 |