karaite in English

noun
1
a member of a Jewish sect founded in the 8th century and located chiefly in the Crimea and nearby areas, and in Israel, which rejects rabbinical interpretation in favor of a literal interpretation of the scriptures.
In Jerusalem, Benneson visited numerous synagogues, and even attended religious services of two Jewish sects: Karaites and Samaritans.

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1. Those words were spoken by a leading Karaite of the eighth century C.E.

2. Ananism and a discussion of Natronay's responsum in light of it, see Haggai Ben Shammai, 'The Karaite Controversy: Scripture and Tradition in Early Karaism', in Bernard Lewis and Friedrich Niewohner (eds.), Religionsgesprdche im Mittelalter (Wiesbaden, 1992), 17-20, and …

3. Later, however, when Ananism with its opposition to traditional Judaism and its artificial system was gradually disappearing, and Karaism was so well established that it need hesitate no longer to call things by their right names, the Karaite leaders adopted openly the …