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Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding
Author | : Fred Astren |
Publsiher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1570035180 |
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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. Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding describes how a minority sectarian religious community constructs and uses historical ideology. It investigates the proportioning of historical ideology to law and doctrine and the influence of historical setting on religious writings about the past. Fred Astren discusses modes of representing the past, especially in Jewish culture, and then poses questions about the past in sectarian--particularly Judaic sectarian--contexts. He contrasts early Karaite scripturalism with the literature of rabbinic Judaism, which, embodying historical views that carry a moralistic burden, draws upon the chain of tradition to suppose a generation-to-generation transmission of divine knowledge and authority. The center of Karaism shifted to the Byzantine-Turkish world during the twelfth through sixteenth centuries, when a new historical outlook unoblivious of the past accommodated legal developments influenced by rabbinic thought. Reconstructing Karaite historical expression from both published works and previously unexamined manuscripts, Astren shows that Karaites relied on rabbinic literature to extract and compile historical data for their own readings of Jewish history. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Karaite scholars in Poland and Lithuania collated and harmonized historical materials inherited from their Middle Eastern predecessors. Astren portrays the way that Karaites, with some influence from Jewish Renaissance historiography and impelled by features of Protestant-Catholic discourse, prepared complete literary historical works that maintained their Jewishness while offering a Karaite reading of Jewish history.
Karaite Judaism
Author | : Meira Polliack |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 1013 |
Release | : 2016-07-18 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9789004294264 |
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Karaism is a Jewish religious movement of a scripturalist and messianic nature, which emerged in the Middle Ages in the areas of Persia-Iraq and Palestine and has maintained its unique and varied forms of identity and existence until the present day, undergoing resurgent cycles of creativity, within its major geographical centres of the Middle-East, Byzantium-Turkey, the Crimea and Eastern Europe. This Guide to Karaite Studies contains thirty-seven chapters which cover all the main areas of medieval and modern Karaite history and literature, including geographical and chronological subdivisions, and special sections devoted to the history of research, manuscripts and printing, as well as detailed bibliographies, index and illustrations. The substantial volume reflects the current state of scholarship in this rapidly growing sub-field of Jewish Studies, as analysed by an international team of experts and taught in various universities throughout Europe, Israel and the United States.
Karaism
Author | : Daniel J. Lasker |
Publsiher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2021-12-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781802070705 |
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Finalist for National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship 2022. Karaite Judaism emerged in the ninth century in the Islamic Middle East as an alternative to the rabbinic Judaism of the Jewish majority. Karaites reject the underlying assumption of rabbinic Judaism, namely, that Jewish practice is to be based on two divinely revealed Torahs, a written one, embodied in the Five Books of Moses, and an oral one, eventually written down in rabbinic literature. Karaites accept as authoritative only the Written Torah, as they understand it, and their form of Judaism therefore differs greatly from that of most Jews. Despite its permanent minority status, Karaism has been an integral part of the Jewish people continuously for twelve centuries. It has contributed greatly to Jewish cultural achievements, while providing a powerful intellectual challenge to the majority form of Judaism. This book is the first to present a comprehensive overview of the entire story of Karaite Judaism: its unclear origins; a Golden Age of Karaism in the Land of Israel; migrations through the centuries; Karaites in the Holocaust; unique Jewish religious practices, beliefs, and philosophy; biblical exegesis and literary accomplishments; polemics and historiography; and the present-day revival of the Karaite community in the State of Israel.
An Introduction to Karaite Judaism
Author | : Yoseif Yaron,Avraham Qanaï |
Publsiher | : Qirqisani Center |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105111893140 |
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The first introduction to Karaite history, practice, thought, and custom in the English language. An ideal book for anyone interested in Karaite Judaism as a living religion, from the perspective of an insider.
The Karaite Jews
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BCUL:VD2215257 |
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As it is Written
Author | : Shawn Lichaa |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Judaism |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105119711955 |
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Historical Consciousness Haskalah and Nationalism among the Karaites of Eastern Europe
Author | : Golda Akhiezer |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2017-12-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004360587 |
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In Historical Consciousness, Haskalah, and Nationalism among the Karaites of Eastern Europe Golda Akhiezer presents the spiritual life and historical thought of Eastern European Karaites, shedding new light on several conventional notions prevalent in Karaite studies from the nineteenth century.
Author | : Barry Dov Walfish |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 893 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9789004189270 |
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This is the first comprehensive bibliography on the Karaites and Karaism. Including over 8,000 items in twenty languages, this bibliography, with its extensive annotations, thoroughly documents the present state of Karaite Studies and provides a solid foundation for future research.