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| | JewishEncyclopedia.com - KARAITES AND KARAISM: |
 | | Ephraim by name, of the beginning of the tenth century, wrote at least one polemic in Arabic against Karaism and in behalf of Rabbinism, and he probably was not the only one in the field. | | | Since that time there has been a wide schism in Karaism between the followers of scientific investigation, who patterned their theology on the Mohammedan kalam and the Motazilite doctrines, and the Orthodox, who would have nothing to do with philosophy and science. | | | During the first centuries of the existence of the sect, Karaism was widely extended among the Jews, and could boast of making many converts among the followers of the parent religion, gathering them in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Babylonia, and Persia. |
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http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=108&letter=K&search=Karaites
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| | Karaite Judaism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Though he opposed Karaism, the Rabbinic commentator Abraham Ibn Ezra regularly quoted Karaite commentators, particularly Yefet ben Ali, to the degree that a legend exists among some Karaites that Ibn Ezra was ben Ali's student. | | | According to historian Salo Wittmayer Baron, the number of Jews affiliating with Karaism comprised as much as 10 percent of world Jewry, and debates between Rabbinic and Karaitic leaders were not uncommon. | | | In the central USA, you will find Karaites-USA Organization and Beth EdatYah Karaite Congregation [1]. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaism
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| | Lietuvos karaimai: Religija |
| | The Karaim religion Karaism is actually a pure faith of the Old Testament which dogmas are built on truth written in Bible, that does not accept any authorities commenting on these holy texts orally or in written. | | | Religious doctrine of Karaism was strongly influenced by Islam – from it were taken the principle of analogy (kyjas), of trusting human free will, the principles of religious terms (avoiding anthropomorphic descriptions and replacing them by symbolic concepts), some religious dogmas (kybla), separate concepts (kurban). | | | It derives from the word 'kara' which in Arabic and Hebrew languages means 'to read', ' to recite the Holy Writ'. |
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http://daugenis.mch.mii.lt/karaimai/religion.htm
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| | Karaite Liturgy |
| | Karaism’s view on prayer was influenced by a desire and conviction to recapture what the Karaites saw as an unadulterated form of Jewish life. | | | Though Karaism rejected the core prayers of rabbinic liturgy they amazingly preserved a sequence of prayer strikingly similar to that of their rabbinic counterparts. | | | Until the thirteenth century, “Karaism” appears to have embraced the view that all prayer must consist of scriptural quotations only. |
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http://www.karaites-usa.org/Studies_On/karaite_liturgy.htm
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| | WHAT IS KARAISM? |
| | Karaite Judaism or Karaism is the original faith of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament). | | | Karaism is not a "monolithic" faith in which every believer agrees on every detail of understanding of Scripture. | | | The word "Karaism" derives from the Hebrew Karaim meaning "Followers of Scripture". |
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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.hill4/karaism.htm
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| | Karaism admitted certain concepts of oral transmission and consensus for the sake of regulation and unification. Medieval Karaite exegesis and rhetorical consciousness is essentially different from the modes of interpreting Scripture that developed in Judaism between the Second Temple and early Islamic periods. | | | The Karaites wished to ground Karaism as a legitimate historical phenomenon of medieval Judaism by demonstrating its biblical foundations, even the fact that it was predicted or prefigured in the Hebrew Bible. | | | Despite their divergence, interpreters, be they Hellenistic Jews, Tannaim, early Christians or Qumranites, who took part in what has been described as the “vast exegetical enterprise” of ancient Judaism, all had in common a certain vision of biblical language as a manifestation of divine language. |
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http://www.biu.ac.il/JS/JSIJ/4-2005/Polliack.doc
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| | Scripture and Schism Online Exhibit at JTS |
| | The Karaites are those Jews who reject the Talmud and instead advocate reliance on the Hebrew Bible as the source of all Jewish law. | | | At the same time, the new unity was not without its detractors, and the very expansion of empire that helped the spread of geonic authority and rabbinic law also strengthened the forces of divergence. | | | The word Karaite means "scripturalist" and translates a variety of Hebrew and Arabic terms with roughly the same meaning: benei mikra, baalei mikra, kara and karai. |
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http://www.jtsa.edu/library/exhib/scrips/05.shtml
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| | Reform Karaism |
| | Strictly speaking, Reform Karaism tends to deny unity in belief apart from the essential basic beliefs of the movement – those being a belief in God and a liberal approach to the Hebrew Scriptures. | | | In its wish of scientific investigation of the Hebrew Bible, the Reform Karaite movement found common ground with another existing Karaite Group – ‘Musevi Karaimler/The Karaim of Mosaic Faith’, led by Hakham Gershom Kibrisli from Israel/Holland. | | | Because of this, Reform Karaism has little problem in regards to its age – our perspective is that God brings things to pass in the time he believes is right. |
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http://www.geocities.com/reformkaraism
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| | Jewish History - An Essay in the Philosophy of History By S. M. Dubnow- Chapter 12 from Nalanda Digital Library at NIT ... |
| | True to their motto: "Search diligently in the Holy Scriptures," the adherents of Karaism applied themselves to the rational study of the Bible, which had come to be, among the Talmudists, the object of casuistic interpretation and legendary adornment. | | | In the later period, as in the earlier, the aim was the capitalization of the accumulated spiritual treasures, an undertaking that gives little occasion for movement and life, but all the more for endurance and industry. | | | It proclaimed the creators of this vast encyclopedia to be usurpers of spiritual power, and urged a return to the Biblical laws in their unadulterated simplicity. |
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http://www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in/resources/english/etext-project/history/jewhist/chapter12.html
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| | Karaite Korner - History of Karaism |
| | On the other hand, those Jews who continued to practice the Tanach-based religion of their anscestors became known as Bnei Mikra ("Followers of Scripture") which was also abbreviated as Karaim ("Scripturalists"), in English "Karaites". | | | At first those who followed YHWH's laws were merely called "Righteous" and it was only in the 9th century CE that they came to be called Karaites. | | | This name derived from the old Hebrew word for the Hebrew Bible: Mikra, Kara. |
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http://www.karaite-korner.org/history.shtml
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| | Karaim Home Page |
| | Karaism is Mosaism, an independent, non sectarian, monotheistic religion of Abraham. | | | Anan Ben David, the founder of the actual Karaite religion, preached about a return to the written word of the Old Testament. | | | These people became known as Karaims, thus combining the religious denomination with ethnonym. |
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http://www.turkiye.net/sota/karaim.html
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| | The JOI Bulletin Board - Interfaith Issues - Names, addresses, contact people |
| | "Karaism proclaimed the Bible to be self-explanatory and sanctioned personal interpretations of the Scriptures. | | | Yes very difficult I don't know what to do Karaism is more traditional than Reform/ Conservative because neither R or C believe Oral or Written Torah is from G-d they say it is man made with divine inspiration. | | | Karaites believe Written Torah is from G-d but Talmud man-made. |
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http://www.joi.org/cgi-bin/bigtalker/discussion.cgi?forum=5&discussion=8
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| | Karaism |
| | The sect crystallized in the Islamic East during the late ninth and early tenth centuries, calling forth stern reactions from the leaders of mainstream rabbinic Judaism. | | | The commentaries of Japheth ben Eli - originally covering the entire Bible and largely extant in manuscript - include long speculative excursuses and strikingly apply kalam doctrines to the explication of such passages as Genesis 1-2, Genesis 22 and Job. | | | Like earlier scripturalist groups - notably the Sadducees - Karaites sought to derive their practices directly from the biblical text. |
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http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ip/rep/J052.htm
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| | The 2003 CESNUR Conference - Karaites and Karaism (Kizilov) |
| | Constantinople became a main spiritual centre of Karaism at the beginning of the twelfth century. | | | [5] In the ninth-twelfth centuries (this period might be called the time of consolidation) Karaism developed as a separate religious movement within Judaism taking into itself other schisms. | | | The author also accused the community’s last president, Elias-Khadr Massouda, of an irresponsible and casual attitude concerning the destiny and cultural heritage of the community (ibid., 83-86). |
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| | Jewish, Jewish, Everywhere, & not a drop to drink |
| | Conventional wisdome has it that there is only one Jewish religion, and that conventional wisdom is accepted throughout the Jewish world. | | | Of Judaism's approximate 14,000,000 million "adherents" today (by "birth" or by "belief") it would be fair to say that there may be a literal "few thousand" who openly acknowledge being Karaites or adherents of Karaism. | | | It seems the rabbis were already aware of his negative attitudes BEFORE he "decided" to create his own "new" fateful "religion" resulting in the eventual schism between those who became his disciples and those who remained loyal to the rabbis.IZAK 04:55, 6 May 2004 (UTC) |
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http://simshalom.blogspot.com/2004/05/karaites-debating-their-status-as-jews.html
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| | Karaism |
| | The name comes from the Hebrew word "qara", to read, and the Karaites themselves interprets their name into "Followers of the Scripture". | | | As so much of today's Judaism is defined in the Mishna and the Talmud, rejected by the Karaites, there are many differences in understanding of both religious truths and the performance of rituals between it and Karaism. | | | Most scholars believe that Karaism grew out of a revolt among Jews in 8th century BCE Persia. |
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http://i-cias.com/e.o/karaism.htm
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| | Denominations within Judaism - TheologyWeb Campus |
| | Karaite Judaism accepts the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible as the only authorative sources today, since God does not direct us through the prophets or otherwise today. | | | At least you dont do away with parts of the Torah to benefit yourself or make it easier on yourself, Like the Reform do.. | | | As you may read below, the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements are newfangled movements that developed in Europe, in reaction to the Enlightenment. |
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| | Khazar-Karaim Relationship |
| | Karaism originated partly in Iran, near the borders of the Khazar empire at the time (or very soon after) part of the Khazars converted to Judaism. | | | Their enmity to their Muslim and Christian neighbours caused their ruler, part of the nobility and apparently also of the people, to adopt Judaism around 740. | | | Such a situation would not only be inconceivable if there were any truth to the allegation of the Khazars' affiliation with the Karaite synagogue, but it actually stands in glaring contrast to the historic alliance of sectarianism and messianism in the early centuries of Jewish experience under Islam. |
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| | The Karaites & 1844 |
| | Karaism typically kept their feasts a month later than other Jews. | | | Thus they were not following the Scriptures in the matter of when to begin their years. | | | Millerites in 1844 used the reckoning of Karaite Judaism to come up with the date of October 22. |
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| | Talk:Karaite Judaism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | If we define Karaism as a Jewish school of thought which believes that the only divine books containing Jewish law can be found in the TaNaKh, then it is clear that Karaism started before the name was attached to it. | | | All I can discern from the article is that the movement goes back to at least the 10th or 11th century. | | | David, though, wouldn't have thought of calling himself a Karaite because there were no SECTS of Judaism in his day to speak of. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Karaite_Judaism
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| | INTRODUCTION |
| | Karaism is the original faith of the Hebrew bible (Mikra) and is unlike traditional Judaism in that Karaites do not accept the so-called Oral Law (Talmud) as used by the vast majority of today's Jews. | | | The station also aims to strengthen existing Karaite communities in both number and spirit. | | | For full details about the faith of Karaism please visit the World Karaite Movement website. |
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| | LookSmart - Directory - Karaism |
| | Karaism - Learn about this Jewish sect that is known for its refusal to accept the oral Torah as divinely inspired. | | | Visit this Tanakh-Only, formerly Christian community that has adopted the beliefs of Karaism and follows the Torah. | | | Visit this organization promoting a form of Judaism that has come to be known as Karaite Judaism with a goal of aiding Tanakh Study. |
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| | Tzidukim And Karaim - Hashkafah.com |
| | The job went to his brother, Chananya, and Anan was so angry that he went and founded his own religion, Karaism. | | | In contrast, the Karaim began around the time of the Rishonim and still exist in Israel today. | | | BTW, the original Karaites did like to claim that they were the bearers of the tradition of the Tzedukim. |
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| | The followers of Karaism believe they are the remnants of the non-Rabbinic Jewish sects of the Second Temple period, such as the Saducees, though others contend they are a sect started in the 8th and 9th centuries. | | | The Karaites, or "Scripturalists," accept only the Hebrew bible and what they view as the Peshat/"Plain or Simple Meaning";, and do not accept non-biblical writings as authoritative. | | | Unlike the above denominations, which were ideological reactions that resulted from the exposure of traditional rabbinic Judaism to the radical changes of modern times, Karaite Judaism did not begin as a modern Jewish movement. |
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| | Jewish and Israeli Web Directory and Search Engine: Synagogues and Movements/Karaite |
| | Provides the following information: a holiday calendar, history of the beliefs and practices, declaration of faith, a newsletter, and a moon calendar. | | | One should keep in mind that Lithuanian Karaites consider themselves an ethnic, not a religious group. | | | This site has information on all aspects of Karaism, inlcuding Karaite Judaica. |
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| | Yad Ben-Zvi |
| | A considerable part of the source material adduced in these studies is derived from Karaite Bible exegesis, which buttressed sectarian views by an appeal to the prophetic writings. | | | The interpretation of Qumranism in the light of Karaism is consequently one of the aims of the present book. | | | This led the author to use the rich and variegated literature of Karaism for the purpose of illuminating the literary remains of the |
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| | RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY |
| | Prague, 22 July 2003 (RFE/RL) -- Karaims are the descendants of Kypchak tribes who lived in the tribal union of the Khazar empire in the Crimea between the eighth and 10th centuries. | | | The sect of Karaism to which the Karaims have belonged since the eighth century is known as Anan ben David, a form of Judaism that acknowledges the Old Testament, but rejects the Talmud. | | | In the eighth century, the Karaims converted to a form of Judaism known as Karaism, which may be described as a return to the roots or "sola scriptura." |
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http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2003/07/22072003165742.asp
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| | On the Main Line: Why Karaism moved closer to Rabbanism |
| | As time went on and these wild absurdities were eliminated, Karaism came nearer and nearer to Rabbinism, not because the early schismatics wished it so, but because the later Karaites could not do otherwise without violating clear ordinances in the Holy Writ or simple postulates of common sense. | | | This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar. | | | Before I post the relevent excerpt, it should be mentioned that as Jewish, religious insiders, heirs of Rabbinic Judaism we do not realize this, but if put to the Martian test*, many scholars do not think that Karaite and Rabbinite halakhah are actually that far apart. |
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http://onthemainline.blogspot.com/2005/12/why-karaism-moved-closer-to-rabbanism.html
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| | Amazon.ca: An Introduction to Karaite Judaism: History, Theology, Practice, and Culture: Books |
| | It starts with Karaite history (starting with ancient Jewish history), then proceeds to cover Karaite thought, belief, and practice. | | | I especially liked the fact that the book focused on what Karaite Judaism is, rather than what it isn't, and how it differs from mainstream Judaism. | | | If you want to know more about Karaism, what Karaites believe, and have believed, etc., this is a good place to start. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0970077548
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| | Lasker, Daniel J. |
| | Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Jewish-Christian Relations, Karaism, Jewish Religion and Thought, Jewish Law and Modern Medicine | | | “Byzantine Karaite Thought, 12th-16th Centuries,” to appear in Meira Polliack, ed., Karaite Judaism, An Introduction to the History and Literary Sources of Medieval and Modern Karaism. | | | “Karaism and Jewish Studies,” Shlomo Dov Goitein Memorial Lecture, Tel-Aviv, 2000. |
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| | Yehud : Community : Karaite |
| | Karaite Korner - Karaism is the original form of Judaism as prescribed by God in the Torah. | | | The Karaite Korner - History - Karaism is the original form of Judaism and has been around since God gave his laws to the Jewish people. | | | - Karaism.com is a Premier Resource for infomration on Karaite Practice, Karaim world-wide and the history of Karaism |
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| | Messiah - Free Encyclopedia |
| | The pseudo-Messiahs that followed played their roles in the Orient, and were at the same time religious reformers whose work influenced Karaism. |
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| | The world's top karaite judaism websites |
| | Another view is that the various anti-Talmudic Jewish groups were never one united sect, but a number of Jewish sects each with different beliefs and customs, united only in their repudiation of the Talmud; this may explain some of the differences among Karaites today. | | | Some scholars believe Anan was Karaism's founder, while other scholars and some Karaites suggest he founded his own sect (the followers of which were called Ananites) which later assimilated into the Karaites, or merged with other groups, or perhaps dispersed altogether. | | | According to Ya'akov al-Kirkisani, Anan's method of Biblical interpretation differed from that of modern Karaites, who use only Peshat, in that he used the methods of Peshat, Remez, Derash, and Sod. |
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| | Heir to the Glimmering World; ISBN-10: 0618470492 |
| | “The scholar of Karaism”— at that time I had no idea what that meant, or why it should be “the” instead of “a,” or who Rudolf Mitwisser was. | | | I understood only that he was the father of what seemed to be numerous children, and that he had come from Germany two years before. | | | And it was not until a long time afterward that Anneliese confided that there had been (even in that period of crisis unemployment) no other applicants. |
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http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?textType=excerpt&titleNumber=689434
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| | Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding |
| | Examines the changing relationship of this Jewish sect to rabbinic Judaism and the influence of Muslim and Christian environments | | | Karaites in the medieval Islamic world eschewed historical thinking, in concert with their rejection of the rabbinic concept of tradition. | | | Notions of history and the past contained in literature of the Karaite Jewish sect offer insight into the relationship of Karaism to mainstream rabbinic Judaism and to Islam and Christianity. |
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| | On the Main Line: Neo-Karaism. |
| | For one, the fact that they have turned the Talmud into Scripture does not really impact their halakhic observance, which is unimpeachable. | | | In the early centuries of the Middle Ages, Karaism posed a viable threat to Rabbinic Judaism in several times and places. | | | So I don't think Talmudic Karaism is going to drift away anytime soon, into a sect of Jews on the outside. |
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| | My Journey into Karaism |
| | I was convinced by the Karaite argument; my journey into Karaism was almost complete. | | | Soon after I left the Yeshiva and started a new journey, a journey that would take me into the soul Karaism and give me a true understanding of the Tora. | | | Someone else before me had made the same journey; little did I know at that time that Mordecai would become my mentor and a close personal friend until his death in 1999. |
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| | Commentary Magazine - Some Recent Jewish Books |
| | Karaism, an anti-talmudic and antirabbinic movement, arose among the Jews of Babylonia more than a thousand years ago and flourished there, in Palestine, and in Egypt for a few centuries.... | | | ...The different stages of what was later to receive the unitary name of Karaism, the Jewishness of the Karaites, and the attraction and repulsion between Karaites and Rabbanites come through clearly... | | | ...For this impressive work, the first volume in a series that will cover the history of Karaism in Europe to our days, the author had to be a good deal of a Byzantinist too... |
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| | What is Karaism? |
| | Somehow or another, evil has gotten a grip on the world. | | | If only one thing only may be said about Karaism it is this: Karaism is an attempt to return to the source; Karaism is an attempt to untwist the wreckage. |
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| | Only the Bible Counts: Karaism in Israel - CULTURE |
| | Only the Bible Counts: Karaism in Israel - CULTURE | | | Nechemia Meyers, affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, has previously published two articles in The World & I: Israel and the Far East: Growing Links Between Jews and Asians (January 1989) and Bar Kokhba: A Two-Millennia Debate (July 1990). | | | On the surface, there is nothing to differentiate Karaites from other Jews. |
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| | Current opinion is that either the Karaites are descendants of Qumran, or took their ideas from Qumran Scrolls found by them centuries later. | | | Ref Naphtali Wieder The Judaean Scrolls and Karaism Je2966 WI 1 Manchester Horovitz London 1962 pp 29-51 | | | This page created using the webpage creation facilities of Webspawner. |
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| | Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2003023745 |
| | The Problem of a Karaite Chain of Tradition 00 Three Yefets: The Problem of Authorship 00 Killing the Scholars: Judah Halevi and the Origins of Karaism 00 The Chain of Tradition in the Mateh Elohim of Moses Bashyachi 00 Chapter 5. | | | Mobilizing the Past: Later Byzantino Turkish Karaism, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 00 Prelude to Refloresence: Thirteenth through Fifteenth Centuries 00 Halakhah and the Past: Elijah Bashyachi 00 Pieces of a Metanarrative: Caleb Afendopolo 00 First Attempts at Narrative History: Moses Bashyachi 00 Chapter 6. |
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| | 750 C.E. web site: "Karaite Korner "; web page: "History of Karaism " (viewed 14 March 1999). |
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