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October 31, 2022

The History of the Karaites, Forgotten Brethren of Mainstream Jews

While rejecting the Talmud, they remained tied to the Jewish community for centuries.

Long before the emergence of the modern denominations, the Jewish world was divided between “Rabbinites,” who revered the Talmud and attendant rabbinic traditions as authoritative interpretations of the Hebrew Bible and Jewish law, and Karaites, who rejected those traditions and insisted on a more literal reading of Scripture. A new book by Daniel Lasker seeks to offer a definitive account of Karaite history. Alan Verskin writes in his review:

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