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The present study is a pioneering account of the development of late medieval Karaite Jewish thought, challenging the oft-repeated assertion that Karaite thinkers remained loyal to Kalām, the dominant theological philosophy during the earlier Golden Age of Karaism. A careful reading of Karaite sources demonstrates that the watershed figure whose influence led to changes in Karaite thought was the Rabbanite Maimonides, whose attacks on the Kalām had revealed its scientific shortcomings. This book discusses major Karaite thinkers from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries, as well as the central themes in their writings. It also outlines the impact of Karaism on the dominant Rabbanite Jews and their major thinkers, especially Maimonides. It should be of interest to all those who study medieval philosophy, intellectual history, Judaism and sectarianism.

Karaites. --- Karaite philosophy. --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Jewish philosophy. --- Hadassi, Judah ben Elijah, --- Bashyatsi, Eliyahu, --- Jews --- Philosophy, Jewish --- Philosophy, Israeli --- Medieval philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Karaites --- Philosophy, Karaite --- Philosophy --- Baʻale Miḳra --- Baʻalei Mikra --- Bene Miḳra --- Benei Mikra --- Karaʾim (Jewish sect) --- Karaism --- Karaitism --- Jewish sects --- Bashyatchi, Elijah, --- Bashyazi, Elijah ben Moses, --- בשייצי, אליהו --- בשייצי, אליהו, --- בשייצי, אליהו בן משה --- הדסי, יהודה בן אליהו,

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Christianity and other religions --- Christianity --- Civilization, Medieval --- Judaism --- Judaism --- Controversial literature --- History --- Jewish influences --- Relations --- Christianity

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Judah Hadassi was the most prominent Karaite Jewish author of twelfth-century Byzantium, steeped in Karaite and Byzantine Greek traditions. In Theological Encounters at a Crossroads: An Edition and Translation of Judah Hadassi's Eshkol ha-kofer, First Commandment, and Studies of the Book's Judaeo-Arabic and Byzantine Contexts , a scientific edition of the first quarter of the Hebrew text of Hadassi's magnum opus is presented with an English translation, a summary of his theology, a discussion of his use of the Greek language, and a linguistic analysis and transcription of all the Greek terms which appear in Hebrew letters in the entire treatise. This book should be of interest to students of Jewish thought, Hebrew literature and medieval Byzantine culture and language.

Ten commandments --- Karaites --- Baʻale Miḳra --- Baʻalei Mikra --- Bene Miḳra --- Benei Mikra --- Karaʾim (Jewish sect) --- Karaism --- Karaitism --- Jewish sects --- Ten commandments. --- Bible. --- Commandments, Ten --- Decalogue --- Karaites. --- Hadassi, Judah ben Elijah --- Hadassi, Judah ben Elijah, --- הדסי, יהודה בן אליהו,