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

2. In other matters the Karaites were far more restrictive than the rabbis.

3. Because the Karaites had deep respect for the divine name, such parchments were seldom disturbed.

4. 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 …

5. 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 …