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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Karaites"”.
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Accents, Pausal Forms and Qere/Ketiv in the Bible Translations and Commentaries of Saadya Gaon and the Karaites of Jerusalem
… commentaries of Saadya Gaon and the Jerusalem Karaites. This question is primarily investigated through comparing these scholars' exegesis of verses where: (1) the accents mark a boundary which likely would have been ignored had the accents not been there (Chapter 2), (2) a pausal form marks a …
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An Anonymous Karaite Commentary of the Fourteenth Century on the Book of Deuteronomy: Comments on Chapter Thirty-Two Edited from a Manuscript in the Sulzberger Collection of the Jewish Theological Seminary Library with Translation and Introduction
… Ya'qub al-Basir, the philosophical genius of the Karaites. The pupil of al-Basir, Abu'l-Faraj Furqan Ibn Assd (Jeshua ben Judah), succeeded his teacher as the attraction of this intellectual center and influenced Jewish thought as far away as Spain.4
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Unequal Hours: The Jewish Reception Of Timekeeping Technology From The Bible To The Twentieth Century
… use the Greco-Roman timekeeping system, whereas Karaites did not. In medieval Christian Europe, access to timekeeping technology and theoretical knowledge was limited, but settlement at northerly latitudes nonetheless forced rabbis to reckon with timekeeping in new ways. With the invention of the …