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Chapters: Anan Ben David, David Ben Boaz, Saul Ben Anan, Boaz Ben Jehoshaphat, Jehoshaphat Ben Saul, Solomon Ben Hasdai, Hezekiah Ben Solomon, Hasdai Ben Hezekiah. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Anan Ben David (ca 715 - ca 795 or 811?) (Hebrew: ) is widely considered to be a major founder of the Karaite movement of Judaism. His followers were called Ananites and, like modern Karaites, do not believe the Rabbinic Jewish oral law (such as the Mishnah) to be divinely inspired. Later Karaite sages are highly critical of ben David, leading some modern scholars to believe that Ananism was separate from Karaism. In the second half of the seventh century and in the whole of the eighth, as a result of the tremendous intellectual commotion produced throughout the Orient by the swift conquests of the Arabs and the collision of Islam with the older religions and cultures of the world, there arose a large number of religious sects, especially in Persia, Babylonia (Iraq), and Syria. Judaism did not escape this general fomentation; the remnants of Second Temple sectsthe Sadducees and Essenespicked up new life and flickered once more before their final extinction. At this time new sects also arose in Judaism; including the Isawites, the Yudganites, the Shadganites, the Malakites, the Mishawaites, and others. All these groups may have quickly disappeared, or been assimilated by rabbinical Judaism, if not for the actions of Anan Ben David. When, about the year 760 CE, the Jewish exilarch in Babylon (probably Isaac Iskawi) died, it appears that two brothers among his nearest kin, probably nephews of his, Anan and Josiah (Hassan), were next in order of succession to the exalted office. Eventually Josiah was elected exilarch by the rabbis of the Babylonian Jewish ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=345969 ... Read more

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Pharisees. Christianity in the 1st century, Rabbinic Judaism, Paul of Tarsus and Judaism, Christianity and Judaism, Tannaim, Woes of the Pharisees, Karaite Judaism, Hasideans, Josephus, Resurrection of the dead ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Karaim, Karaim Language, Crimean Karaites, Adolph Joffe, Abraham Firkovich, Boris Souvarine, Çufut Qale, Mordecai Ben Nissan, Seraya Shapshal, Benjamin Aga, Abraham Kirimi, Sima Babovich, Solomon Krym. Excerpt:Picture of Abraham Firkovich Abraham (Avraham) ben Samuel Firkovich (Hebrew - Avraham ben Shmuel ; Crimean Karaim : - Avragham Firkovich ) (1786-1874) was a famous leader of the Qarays (Crimean Karaites ). He was born in Lutsk , Volhynia , then lived in Lithuania , and finally settled in Çufut Qale , Crimea . Firkovich was a communal leader and hakham . He is best known as a collector of manuscripts and amateur archeologist. In Karaite circles he is sometimes known by the acronym "ABen ReSheF" (from "Abraham ben Rabbi Shemuel Firkovich"). Biography Abraham Firkovich, date unknown. From the 1901-1906 Jewish Encyclopedia . In 1818 Firkovitch was hazzan of his native city, an office which among both Karaites and Rabbinites includes that of cantor, reader, teacher, and minister. In 1828 he lived in Berdichev , and had controversies with some Rabbinite Jews , the result being his anti-rabbinical work Masah u-Meribah (Eupatoria , 1838). In later years when he became closely connected with the Rabbinites, he repudiated the sentiments contained in that pamphlet. In 1830 he visited Jerusalem, where he collected many Karaite and Rabbinite manuscripts. On his return he remained two years in Constantinople , as teacher in the Karaite community. He then went to Crimea and organized a society to publish old Karaite works, of which several appeared in Eupatoria with comments by him. In 1838 he was the teacher of the children of Sima Babovich , the head of the Russian Karaites, who one year later recommended him to Count Vorontzov and to the Historical Society of Odessa as a suitable ma... ... Read more

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Karaite Judaism. Hebrew Bible, Jewish religious movements, Tanakh, Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, Kabbalah, Aliyah, Hebrew calendar, Counting of the Omer, Tzitzit, Crimean Karaites ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Anan Ben David, Aharon Ben Moshe Ben Asher, Yehouda Ben Eliya Hadassi, David Ibn Merwan Al-Mukkamas, Sheraya Szapszal, Isaac de Troki, David Ben Abraham Al-Fassi, Ali Ben Sulaiman, Nissim Ben Noah, Salomon Ben Aaron Troki, Juda Ben Eli, Abul Tayyib Samuel Ben Asher Al-Jabali. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Anan ben David est souvent considéré comme le fondateur du karaïsme (forme de judaïsme qui se sépara du judaïsme rabbinique par le rejet de la loi orale), ou au moins le fondateur d'un groupe central du mouvement karaïte, les "ananites", qui se rallièrent aux idées d'Anan ben David sur la Bible, la transmigration des âmes, les pratiques ascétiques, les rites de deuil, et l'attitude face à la médecine etc. Des Sages karaïtes ultérieurs furent fortement critiques envers sa personne et ses enseignements, ce qui a mené certains à penser qu'il n'a pas de part au karaïsme et que son mouvement, l'ananisme, s'y serait ultérieurement intégré. Cependant, la dynastie de Nessi'im qu'il fonda régna sur les karaïtes pendant six générations. Dans la seconde moitié du septième siècle et la totalité du huitième, un bouillonnement intellectuel, généré par les conquêtes arabes et la collision de l'islam avec les anciennes croyances et cultures du monde, mena à l'émergence de nombreuses sectes, particulièrement en Perse, en Babylonie et en Syrie. Le judaïsme vit brièvement réemerger des tendances disparues comme le sadducéisme et l'essénisme dans une éphémère tentative de résurrection. A cette époque, le pouvoir abbasside, dont le centre était situé à Damas, se transporta à Bagdad, un important centre rabbinique. Les gueonim, directeurs des académies talmudiques babyloniennes, se voyaient comme le dernier maill...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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In the year of the Lord 1588, the city of Prague was held in the grip of terror, victim to the murderous rampage of an inhuman monster created from the seeds of hatred and sown through religious intolerance and mortal greed. If the Empire was to survive, it had to place its hopes of salvation in the hands of three men: a heretical priest, a failed prophet, and a king without a kingdom. This is their story, exposing those intentionally proclaimed as its heroes to be nothing more than the notorious villains who were prepared to destroy their own world. While the true heroes were condemned to be victims of forgotten memories and lost souls. Three men deemed unworthy by the society that sought their protection, Giordano Bruno, Caesar de Nostradame, and Yakov Kahana, and how, when they were united one fateful day, they became "The Trinity." ... Read more

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The volume contains the edition and description of the fragments of medieval Karaite Hebrew Bible manuscripts in Arabic characters which have been preserved in the Cairo Genizah.It consists of an introduction, a description of the texts, a concluding synthesis, and plates.The manuscripts which are examined are of great importance for our knowledge and understanding of the medieval Karaites in the Near East, and also for the history of the pronunciation of the Hebrew language.While demonstrating how the Karaite Jewish sectarians imitated Moslem scribal practice as a result of their rebellion against Rabbanite traditions and institutions, the texts reflect, too, the distribution of long and short vowels in the Tiberian reading tradition, and so make an important contribution to our picture of how the Hebrew language developed. ... Read more