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Karaites
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Noun1.Karaites - a Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud; the sect arose in Iraq in the eighth century
religious order, religious sect, sect - a subdivision of a larger religious group


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Olszowy, "La lettre de divorce Caraite et sa place dans les relations entre Caraites et Rabbanites au Moyen Age," Revue des Etudes Juives 155 (1996): 337-362.
 
 
 
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