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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Other Authors: Polliack, Meira.

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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

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material /
  • Meira Poluack
  • THE EUROPEAN DISCOVERY OF KARAISM IN THE SIXTEENTH TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES /
  • Paul B. Fenton
  • THE SCHOLARLY STUDY OF KARAISM IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES /
  • Haggai Ben-Shammai
  • KARAITE HISTORIOGRAPHY AND HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS /
  • Fred Astren
  • THE ORIGINS OF THE KARAITES /
  • Moshe Gil
  • THE KARAITES AND THE SECOND TEMPLE SECTS /
  • Yoram Erder
  • ISLAMIC CONTEXTS OF MEDIEVAL KARAISM /
  • Fred Astren
  • THE KARAITES AS PORTRAYED IN MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC SOURCES /
  • Camilla Adang
  • KARAISM AND SUFISM /
  • Paul B. Fenton
  • THE MOURNERS OF ZION: THE KARAITES IN JERUSALEM IN THE TENTH AND ELEVENTH CENTURIES /
  • Yoram Erder
  • KARAITE COMMUNITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST DURING THE TENTH TO FIFTEENTH CENTURIES /
  • Elinoar Bareket
  • KARAITE LEGAL DOCUMENTS /
  • Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
  • EARLY KARAITE FAMILY LAW /
  • Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
  • THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE KARAITES TO THE STUDY OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE /
  • Geoffrey Khan
  • THE USE OF RABBINIC SOURCES IN KARAITE WRITINGS /
  • Ofra Tirosh-Becker
  • MAJOR TRENDS IN KARAITE PHILOSOPHY AND POLEMICS IN THE TENTH AND ELEVENTH CENTURIES /
  • Haggai Ben-Shammai
  • MAJOR TRENDS IN KARAITE BIBLICAL EXEGESIS IN THE TENTH AND ELEVENTH CENTURIES /
  • Meira Polliack
  • THE KARAITES IN MODERN EGYPT /
  • Joel Beinin
  • FROM EGYPT TO ISRAEL: THE BIRTH OF A KARAITE 'EDAH IN ISRAEL /
  • Emanuela Trevisan Semi
  • LIVING LIMINALITY: KARAITE JEWS NEGOTIATE IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY IN ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES /
  • Sumi Elaine Colligan
  • MELODIC PATTERNS IN KARAITE MUSIC: PAST AND PRESENT /
  • Rachel Kollender
  • KARAITE HEBREW /
  • Aharon Maman
  • BYZANTINE KARAITE THOUGHT /
  • Daniel J. Lasker
  • KARAITE EXEGETICAL AND HALAKHIC LITERATURE IN BYZANTIUM AND TURKEY /
  • Daniel Frank
  • KARAITE PRAYER AND LITURGY /
  • Daniel Frank
  • THE KARAITE CALENDAR: SANCTIFICATION OF THE NEW MOON BY SIGHTING /
  • Magdi Shamuel
  • THE KARAITES IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE CRIMEA: AN OVERVIEW /
  • Tapani Harviainen
  • THE TURKIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES OF THE EAST EUROPEAN KARAITES /
  • Dan Shapira
  • BEGINNINGS OF THE KARAITE COMMUNITIES OF THE CRIMEA PRIOR TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY /
  • Dan Shapira
  • THE HISTORY OF THE CRIMEAN KARAITES DURING THE SIXTEENTH TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES /
  • Golda Akhiezer
  • THE KARAITE COMMUNITIES OF CHUFUT-KALE AND MANGUP: HISTORY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE SETTLEMENTS /
  • Mikhail Kizilov
  • THE KARAITES OF THE CRIMEA THROUGH TRAVELERS' EYES /
  • Mikhail Kizilov
  • THE KARAITES OF CZARIST RUSSIA, 1780-1918 /
  • Philip E. Miller
  • THE KARAITES IN CONTEMPORARY LITHUANIA AND THE FORMER USSR /
  • Tapani Harviainen
  • THE MUSICAL HERITAGE OF LITHUANIA'S KARAIMS /
  • Karina Firkavičiūtė
  • ABRAHAM FIRKOVICH /
  • Tapani Harviainen
  • A GUIDE TO COLLECTIONS OF KARAITE MANUSCRIPTS /
  • David Sklare
  • KARAITE PRESS AND PRINTING /
  • Barry D. Walfish
  • GENERAL INDEX /
  • Paul B. Fenton.