Capitolo 36
when his/her native Jerusalem was stormed by the Crusaders in 1099. A
I wander about to Constantinople, he devoted him to science, Jewish
philology and the Greek literature. He used his/her wide knowledge in his
great job, "A Cluster of Flowers" of Cyprus (have-Kopher_ of _Eshkol), what
you/he/she was completed in 1150. You/he/she is written in a series of rhymed alphabetical
acrostics. It is encyclopedic in series, and draws critically, not only
of the Judaism, but also of the Christianity and Islam.
The literature of Karaitic was produced later also in centuries, but from the end
of the twelfth century, Karaism had exhausted his/her originality and
fertility. One very later product of Karaism, however it deserves special
mention. Isaac Troki composed, in 1593, a job entitled, "The
Strengthening of Faith" (_Chizzuk Emunah_) in that defenses the author
The Judaism and it attached the Christianity. It was a shiny book, and as his
you generally deduce you/they were systematized, you/he/she was read a lot of and you/he/she was used. With
this exception, Karaism didn't produce important job after the twelfth one
century.
On the intellectual side, therefore Karaism was a powerful person nevertheless
ephemeral movement. In many branches of science and the philology the
Karaites made the true knowledge sums contemporary. But the principal
service of Karaism was indirect. The Hebrews of Rabbinite that represented the
mass of the people, had been in trip to a scientific and
philosophical development of them really in front of the increase of Karaism. The
necessity to fight against Karaism with its his/her own weapon gave a strong impetus
to the new movement in Rabbinism and some of the better job of Saadiah
you/he/she was inhaled by opposition of Karaitic. We turn first however, the
career of Saadiah, we have to consider another literary movement that
coincided in date with the increase of Karaism, but it was completely independent
of him.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
KARAITES.
Graetz.--III, 5 (on Troki, _ibid._, IV, 18, end. M. Mocatta,
_Faith Strengthened_, London 1851).