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Karaites

DEFINITIONS OF: Karaites

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n a Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud; the sect arose in Iraq in the eighth century

Type of:
religious order, religious sect, sect
a subdivision of a larger religious group
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