  The publication of the unfinished TP in Spinoza’s posthumous Opera was met with relative indifference, upstaged as it was by the simultaneous appearance of Ethics (Laerke 2010, 122). However, the TTP was read, discussed, and condemned in the decades following its publication. The critical reception tended to focus on the perceived anti-religious features of the work—for instance, the refutation of miracles and the denial of the divine origin of the Pentateuch—but the naturalistic account of right and law and the arguments for the freedom to philosophize also provoked debate.