Karaite Judaism

A Guide to Its History and Literary Sources
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-12251-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 73, 982 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1873 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

Karaism is a Jewish religious movement of a scripturalist and messianic nature, which emerged in the Middle Ages in the areas of Persia-Iraq and Palestine and has maintained its unique and varied forms of identity and existence until the present day, undergoing resurgent cycles of creativity, within its major geographical centres of the Middle-East, Byzantium-Turkey, the Crimea and Eastern Europe.
This Guide to Karaite Studies contains thirty-seven chapters which cover all the main areas of medieval and modern Karaite history and literature, including geographical and chronological subdivisions, and special sections devoted to the history of research, manuscripts and printing, as well as detailed bibliographies, index and illustrations. The substantial volume reflects the current state of scholarship in this rapidly growing sub-field of Jewish Studies, as analysed by an international team of experts and taught in various universities throughout Europe, Israel and the United States.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Polliack, Meira

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Glaubensrichtungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode

Über Autor(innen)

Meira Polliack, Ph.D. (1993) in Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, is Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Tel-Aviv University. She has published extensively on Karaism, medieval Judaeo-Arabic literature and biblical exegesis, including The Karaite Tradition of Arabic Bible Translation (Brill, 1997).