Reconstructing the Past and Conceptualizing the Jewish "Other": How the Babylonian Geonim Contributed to the Creation of the Founding Myth of Karaism
The purpose of the article is threefold. First, it explores whom the term "Karaites" initially denoted. The suggested answer is that as late as toward the middle of the tenth century, it designated representatives of a cross-sectoral (or trans-sectarian) phenomenon within Judaism of an ant...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2022
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History of religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 73-108 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Karaites
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/ History 800-1200
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism KBL Near East and North Africa TF Early Middle Ages TG High Middle Ages |
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