the Karaites

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• KARAITES — (Heb. בַּעֲלֵי מִקְרָא ,בְּנֵי מִקְרָא ,קָרָאִים, Qaraʾim, Benei Miqra, Ba alei Miqra; Ar. Qarāʾiyyūn), Jewish sect which came into being toward the middle of the ninth century. (See Map: karaite Settlement). Its doctrine is characterized… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Karaites — Karaïsme  Cet article traite du karaïsme en tant que religion ; pour l histoire des communautés qui l adoptèrent, voir Histoire du karaïsme Courants du judaïsme Fondamentaux Définitions : Judaïsme · Religion abrahamique · YHWH …   Wikipédia en Français

• Karaïtes — Karaïsme  Cet article traite du karaïsme en tant que religion ; pour l histoire des communautés qui l adoptèrent, voir Histoire du karaïsme Courants du judaïsme Fondamentaux Définitions : Judaïsme · Religion abrahamique · YHWH …   Wikipédia en Français

• THE MIDDLE AGES — …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Karaites —    A Jewish sect that originated in the eighth century in Babylonia and then spread throughout the Middle East. From the 13th century on, the Karaites made their way into Europe, where many of them settled in the Crimea. The Karaites also… …   Historical dictionary of the Holocaust

• Crimean Karaites — The Crimean Karaites (Crimean Karaim: sg. къарай qaray, pl. къарайлар qaraylar; Trakai Karaim: sg. karaj, pl. karajlar, Hebrew קָרָאִים qara im, readers , tr. Karaylar), also known as Karaim and Qarays, are a community of ethnic Turkic adherents… …   Wikipedia

• List of Jewish leaders in the Land of Israel — The following is a list of Jewish leaders since the time of Abraham.For thousands of years, Jews have lived in their homeland, sometimes as an independent polity, sometimes not. Although at times the region was ruled by foreign empires Jews in… …   Wikipedia

• Karaites — noun a Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud; the sect arose in Iraq in the eighth century • Hypernyms: ↑sect,… …   Useful english dictionary

• Karaites — ♦ Members of a Jewish sect that rejected the Talmudic interpretations of the Bible. Going directly back to the Bible, they cam up with their own interpretations; thus their customs differed considerably from those of the mainstram Rabbinical Jews …   Medieval glossary

• KARAITES —    a Jewish sect which originated in the 8th century; adhered to the letter of Scripture and repudiated all tradition; were strict Sabbatarians …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• Karaites —    A Jewish sect in the 8 century AD and later that accepted only the original Scriptures and rejected later rabbinical writings …   Who’s Who in Jewish History after the period of the Old Testament