Isaac ben Solomon on the Karaite Creed
Isaac ben Solomon (1755-1826) was ḥakham (rabbi) of the ancient Karaite community of Chufut-Kale in the Crimea. In addition to acting as pastor of his flock, he served also as physician, taking care of the sick not only among the Karaite inhabitants but also among their Muslim neighbors, the Crimean...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penn Press
1989
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The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 1989, Volume: 80, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 49-85 |
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| Summary: | Isaac ben Solomon (1755-1826) was ḥakham (rabbi) of the ancient Karaite community of Chufut-Kale in the Crimea. In addition to acting as pastor of his flock, he served also as physician, taking care of the sick not only among the Karaite inhabitants but also among their Muslim neighbors, the Crimean Tatars, without charging any fee for it. As a theologian, he issued a number of decisions in matters of Karaite religious law showing a tendency to soften somewhat the rigor of Karaite jurisprudence, and often enough meeting with severe disapproval from his more conservative colleagues in Russia and abroad. Two of his works were published only after his death: a treatise on the calendar, with astronomical diagrams and tables, and a smaller work on the Karaite Creed as formulated (in ten articles) by the learned and universally revered Constantinopolitan ḥakham Elijah Bashyatchi (died 1490). The high prestige of Bashyatchi did not deter Isaac from disagreeing with him in the interpretation of some of the major articles of the Creed. But Isaac limited his criticism to a brief general statement in the foreword to his own work, and left it to the reader to compare his own work with Bashyatchi's in individual details. The present article offers a brief summary of Isaac's work on the Creed, followed by a comparison of his views with those of Bashyatchi, and preceded by a sketch of Isaac's life and activity. |
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| ISSN: | 1553-0604 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Jewish quarterly review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1454326 |