Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding (Studies in Comparative Religion)
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: September 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781570035180
Subjects: Comparative Religion; Judaism; Karaites; Religion - World Religions; Religion; Judaism - History; History
First sentence: Research and scholarship in recent years has yielded new approaches in the fields of Jewish and Islamic history, as in medieval studies in general.
Description: "Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding describes how a minority sectarian religious community constructs and uses historical ideology. It investigates the proportioning of historical ideology to law and doctrine and the influence of historical setting on religious writings about the past."--BOOK JACKET.