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Inbunden, Engelska, 2022
630 kr
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Finalist for National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship 2022.Karaite Judaism emerged in the ninth century in the Islamic Middle East as an alternative to the rabbinic Judaism of the Jewish majority. Karaites reject the underlying assumption of rabbinic Judaism, namely, that Jewish practice is to be based on two divinely revealed Torahs, a written one, embodied in the Five Books of Moses, and an oral one, eventually written down in rabbinic literature. Karaites accept as authoritative only the Written Torah, as they understand it, and their form of Judaism therefore differs greatly from that of most Jews. Despite its permanent minority status, Karaism has been an integral part of the Jewish people continuously for twelve centuries. It has contributed greatly to Jewish cultural achievements, while providing a powerful intellectual challenge to the majority form of Judaism. This book is the first to present a comprehensive overview of the entire story of Karaite Judaism: its unclear origins; a Golden Age of Karaism in the Land of Israel; migrations through the centuries; Karaites in the Holocaust; unique Jewish religious practices, beliefs, and philosophy; biblical exegesis and literary accomplishments; polemics and historiography; and the present-day revival of the Karaite community in the State of Israel.
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
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Thorough and meticulously researched, this studyis based on a comprehensive reading of philosophical arguments drawn from allthe major Jewish sources, published and unpublished, from the Geonic period inthe ninth century until the dawn of the Haskalah in the late eighteenthcentury.The core of the book is a detailed discussion ofthe four doctrines of Christianity whose rationality Jews thought they coulddefinitively refute: trinity, incarnation, transubstantiation, and virginbirth. In each case, Daniel Lasker presents a succinct history of the Christiandoctrine and then proceeds to a careful examination of the Jewish efforts todemonstrate its impossibility. The main text is clearly written in anon-technical manner, with the Christian doctrines and the Jewish responsesboth carefully explained; the notes include long quotations, in Hebrew andArabic as well as in English, from sources that are not readily available inEnglish.At the time of its original publication in 1977this book was regarded as a major contribution to a relatively neglected areaof medieval Jewish intellectual history; the new, wide-ranging introductionprepared for this paperback edition, which surveys and summarizes subsequentscholarship, re-establishes its position as a major work.