Capitolo 34
authority and the Karaites (from _Kera_ or _Mikra_, i.e. "Bible")
asked the right to refuse tradition and to regress to the Bible as the
original source of inspiration. Such reactions against tradition are
recurrent in all the religions.
However, Karaism was not a true reaction against tradition. It replaced
an old tradition from a new; it replaced a rigid unprogressive,
authority for one able the growth and the adaptation to changing
requisite. In the end, Karaism became, so it surrounded with a hedge in from his supposed
to avoid of tradition that has stopped being a living strength. But we am
here it didn't worry him about the religious defects of Karaism. Concerned from
the literary side, Karaism produced a double effect. Same Karaism gave
birth to an original and splendid literature, and, on the other hand,
coming as it did to the duration when Arabic science and poetry were
reaching their gilded zenith, Karaism woke up inside the Rabbinite
sphere a notable energy of which it resulted in some of the better job
medieval Hebrews.
Among the most famous of the authors of Karaite Benjamin Nahavendi it was that
lived to the beginning of the ninth century, and it visualized a lot
decision and the ability like a promoter of the free-thought in religion.
Nahavendi not only wrote commentaries on the Bible, but it also tried
to write a philosophy of the Judaism, being allied to Philo of past and
to the Arabic writers in his/her his/her own duration. At the end of the ninth century,
Abul-Faraj Harun made a great long footstep as an expounder of before the
Bible and as an authority on Israelite grammar.
During the ninth and tenth centuries, a lot of Karaites revealed a lot
vigor and the ability in their controversies with the Gaonim. In this field
the writers of more separate Karaitic were Salman the child of Yerucham,
(885-960); Sahal, the child of Mazliach (900-950); Joseph al-Bazir
(in bloom 910-930); Hassan, the child of Mashiach (930); and Japhet, the
child of Wings (950-990).
Salman, the child of Yerucham was an active traveller; been born in Egypt, him