Caleb Afendopolo (1455–1523): A Karaite Scholar’s Perception of Jesus and Christianity
Journal: Jewish History
Year: 2025

Abstract Caleb Afendopolo, a prominent Karaite scholar of the 15th–16th centuries Byzantine-Ottoman realm, was a commentator, philosopher, and poet. A prolific author, he composed numerous works on Karaite principles of faith, halakhah, exegesis, philosophy, and sciences. He was a product of the Byzantine Greek-speaking Karaite society and a contemporary of the enormous wave of immigration in the Ottoman Empire of Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula who brought with them new intellectual tr