Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding

by Fred Astren

Examines the changing relationship of this Jewish sect to rabbinic Judaism and the influence of Muslim and Christian environments

Notions of history and the past contained in literature of the Karaite Jewish sect offer insight into the relationship of Karaism to mainstream rabbinic Judaism and to Islam and Christianity. Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding describes how a minority sectarian religious community constructs...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570035180
• ISBN13: 9781570035180
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"