Karaite Judaism: A Guide to Its History and Literary Sources (HdO, Handbook of Oriental Studies)
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2003.
Hardcover. 9 3/4" X 6 3/8". xxxi, 981pp. Bound in black laminated printed cloth over boards. Light shelfwear to binding, with gentle bumping to head and tail of spine and to corners. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. A very presentable hardcover edition of this study of Karaite Judaism, part of the Handbook of Oriental Studies.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Karaism is a Jewish religious movement of a scripturalist and messianic nature, which emerged in the Middle Ages in the areas of Persia-Iraq and Palestine and has maintained its unique and varied forms of identity and existence until the present day, undergoing resurgent cycles of creativity, within its major geographical centres of the Middle-East, Byzantium-Turkey, the Crimea and Eastern Europe.
This Guide to Karaite Studies contains thirty-seven chapters which cover all the main areas of medieval and modern Karaite history and literature, including geographical and chronological subdivisions, and special sections devoted to the history of research, manuscripts and printing, as well as detailed bibliographies, index and illustrations. The substantial volume reflects the current state of scholarship in this rapidly growing sub-field of Jewish Studies, as analysed by an international team of experts and taught in various universities throughout Europe, Israel and the United States.
Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Volume: 73. (Publisher). Very good +. Item #17592
ISBN: 9004122516
Price: $200.00