University of South Carolina, Date: 2004. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good in dust jacket with jacket flaps taped to pastedown. 2004. University of South Carolina ISBN 1570035180 9781570035180 [US]

University of South Carolina Press 10/1/2004 Hardback or Cased Book New in New jacket Karaite Judaism and Historical Understanding (Hardback or Cased Book)

Columbia University of South Carolina Press 2004 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 360 p. Studies in Comparative Religion.

ISBN10: 1570035180, ISBN13: 9781570035180, [publisher: University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, South Carolina] Hardcover First Edition Octavo in dust jacket, xiv, 346 pp., bibliography, general index, index to Citations from Biblical and Rabbinic Literature "Notions of history and the past contained in literature of the Karaite Jewish sect offer insight into the relationship of Karaism to mainstream rabbinic Judaism and to Islam and Christianity. 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.In the present volume, Fred Astren discusses modes of representing the past, especially in Jewish culture, and then poses questions about the past in sectarian, particularly Judaic sectarian, contexts. He contrasts early Karaite scripturalism with the literature of rabbinic Judaism, which, embodying historical views that carry a moralistic burden, draws upon the chain of tradition to suppose a generation-to-generation transmission of divine knowledge and authority. Karaites in the medieval Islamic world eschewed historical thinking, in concert with their rejection of the rabbinic concept of tradition. One important medieval Karaite, al-Qirqisani, however, constructed a sophisticated historical argument as part of his ...

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