List of former Jews
List of former Jews, or more accurately, people of Jewish ethnicity and adherents of Judaism who have converted to another (or no) religion. According to certain concepts of Jewish being (cf. who is a Jew?), a Jew who converts to another (or no) religion is still "a Jew," by family and heritage alone, if not also by culture, and to a certain extent, belief (cf. monotheism).
- Bahá'í
- Christianity
- Hinduism
- Islam
- Buddhism
- Atheism/Agnosticism
Undetermined
These individuals have left the Jewish faith for an undetermined ideology.
- Polemon II, king of Cilicia converted to marry the Jewish princess Berenice; later relapsed.[1]
- Uriel da Costa, philosopher shunned for heresy.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ (Josephus, Jewish Antiquities xx. 7, § 3
- ↑ Columbia Encyclopedia
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/1/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.