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16 septembre 2021
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Late Antiquity Jewish communities Literature, Language and Culture cultural diversity Early Middle Age rabbis religious diversity LAN009000 Linguistics CFSujets proches
Baʻalei Mikra Karaitism Bene Miḳra Baʻale Miḳra Karaʾim (Jewish sect) Karaism Benei MikraCiter ce document
Yoram Erder, « 6. Karaites and Sadducees », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.42od8t
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The rabbinic literature of the Middle Ages ostensibly testifies that the Karaites were the followers of the Sadducees. In fact, this claim has nothing to do with history, but with polemics, as it reveals the hostile attitude of the Rabbanites towards the Karaites. Moses Maimonides can serve as an example for this phenomenon. In his commentary to m. Avot 1.3, Maimonides refers to the Karaites as Sadducees. Avot quotes Antigonus of Sokho, who had said: “Be not like servants who serve their mast...