Acosta, Isaac De

Acosta, Isaac de a Jewish rabbi of Amsterdam, who lived in the beginning of the 18th century, is the author of Conjecturas Sagradas sobre los Profets Primeros, i.e., "Sacred Conjectures on the First Prophets," containing a new translation and a paraphrase of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings. It was published at Leyden (1712). See First, Bibl. Jud. 1, 17; De' Rossi, Dizionario Storico (Germ. transl.), p. 29. (B. P.)