Karaite Judaism : a guide to its history and literary sources /
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...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2003.
Series:
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East
73.
Handbook of Oriental Studies: Ancient Near East Online, ISBN: 9789004307988.
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Call Number: BM185 .K37 2003
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxi, 981 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 933-958) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004294264 |
| ISSN: | 0169-9423 ; |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |