The Art of Ambiguity: The Karaites as Portrayed in Judah Halevi's Book of the Kuzari

On the basis of a letter preserved in the Cairo Geniza, Judah Halevi is assumed to have originally composed his influential book of religious thought, the Kuzari, as a polemical response to a Karaite convert. However, he neither perceived nor described the Karaites as heretics. In fact, his depictio...

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Subtitles:Research Article
Main Author: Zawanowska, Marzena (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press 2021
In: AJS review
Year: 2021, Volume: 45, Issue: 1, Pages: 143-166
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Yehudah, ha-Leṿi 1075-1141 / Karaites / Yehudah, ha-Leṿi 1075-1141, Kitāb al-ḥuǧǧa wa-ʾd-dalīl fī naṣr ad-dīn aḏ-ḏalīl / Rabbinic literature
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
HD Early Judaism
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