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--- Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@hidden.email> wrote: > Interesting... these were Karaite websites? 'Cause > us Rabbanites claim > the opposite, that Karaism was invented in Babylonia > (partially due to > a political struggle over the position of Exilarch), > and then spread to > other Jewish communities. Interesting. Yes, they were Karaite sites. They did mention a nasty political struggle over the Exilachate. I wonder which wa it really happened. While Babylonia ended up > being the > preeminent center of Rabbinic Judaism and the Oral > Torah tradition, the > Rabbinic system of Jewish Law already existed in > other communities, > such as Egypt, Italy and the Rhine Valley > (="Ashkenaz") -- they just > originally followed the Israeli tradition when it > came to individual > legal rulings and customs; they eventually switched > over (in part or in > whole) to the Babylonian legal schools when they > became acknowledged as > superceding the Israeli ones in prestige. > > -Stephen (Steg) The web sites I looked at claimed that Rabinic Judaism is the inheritor of the tradition of the Pharasees while Karaism is the inheritor of the tradition of the Saducees. And of course the Pharasees were wrong and the Saducees were right and the talk about the Saducees denying the resurection, etc. was stuff trumped up by their enemies the Pharasees. I w�uld say here that the Christian tradition assigns the same (dis)beliefs to the Saducees, but then, most of the early Christian leadership is explicitly or implicitly identified as being from the Pharasee tradition. Jesus himself seemed to identify much more with the Pharasees (thus his harsh condemnations of what he judged their errors). So I guess the Karaites could just lay that to more Pharasee propaganda. Of course it seems that modern Karaism is a revival of a school of thought that has been (practically?) dead for long ages. So it is quite possible that modern Karaism has little in common with historical Karaism. Adam Jin xividjilud djal su�u ed falud ul Jozevu pomu instanchid ul andjelu djul Dominu sivi, ed idavi achibid jun al su sposa. Ed nun aved cu�uxud ad sivi ancha nadud jan ad ul sua huiju primodjindu ed cuamad il su numi ul Jezu. Machu 1:24-25