Perspectives sur l'histoire du karaïsme = Perspectives on the History of Karaism

• Main Author: Dye, Guillaume (auth, Editor)
• Other Authors: Goltzberg, Stefan (auth), Hamidović, David (auth), Kizilov, Mikhail (auth), Lasker, Daniel (auth), Polliack, Meira (auth), Schwarb, Gregor (auth), Wechsler, Michael G. (auth), Yeshaya, Joachim (auth), Zoref, Arye (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Brussel Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles 2022
• Series: PHR series 28
• Subjects: Humanities; Philosophy; Religion & beliefs; Judaism; Karaism, Judaism, Ottoman world, Crimea, Eastern Europe, Jewish studies
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This book examines the history of Karaism, a Jewish religious movement that emerged in the ninth century in Iraq and Palestine, in opposition to rabbinic Judaism and the notion of the Oral Torah. This important current of medieval Judaism, of which a few communities remain today, is a remarkable exa...