Genesis 5:24 in Karaite Exegesis: "Sefer maamar Mordekhai"
Journal: The Biblical Annals
Year: 2025

This article deals with a little-known commentary on the Pentateuch (more precisely, a supercommentary on Aaron ben Joseph’s Sefer ha-mivḥar) titled Sefer maamar Mordekhai (Book of Mordecai’s Speech). Its author is the Polish-Lithuanian Karaite Mordecai ben Nisan of Kukizov (died around the year 1709), one of the founders of the Karaite community in Kukizów near Lwów, the ancestral seat of the Polish king John III Sobieski. This commentary was based on an earlier commentary on Sefer ha-shemenha-