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Anan Ben David (Hebrew: ענן בן דוד, c. 715 - c. 795) is widely considered to be a major founder of Karaite Judaism. His followers were called Ananites and, like modern Karaites, did not believe the Rabbinic Jewish Oral Torah, such as the Mishnah, to be authoritative.

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Anan ben David

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Anan Ben David (Hebrew: ענן בן דוד, c. 715 - c. 795) is widely considered to be a major founder of Karaite Judaism. His followers were called Ananites...

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Saul ben Anan

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Saul ben Anan (Hebrew: שאול בן ענן) was a Karaite Jewish leader of the eighth century CE. He was the son and successor of Anan ben David. He is styled...

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Benjamin Nahawandi

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early Middle Ages. The Karaite historian Solomon ben Jeroham regarded him as greater even than Anan ben David. His name indicates that he is originally from...

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Josiah ben Saul

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Josiah ben Saul (Hebrew: יאשיהו בן שאול) was the grandson of Anan ben David and a Karaite Nasi. Some of his halakhic opinions are quoted by later Karaite...

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Solomon ben Hasdai

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Solomon ben Hasdai was the son of Hasdai ben Hezekiah. He was the tenth Karaite exilarch of the house of Anan ben David, and the last of Anan's descendants...

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Bostanai

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Hisdai, Exilarch Haninai II ben Baradoi, Exilarch Joseph ben Jacob, Gaon of Sura Anan ben David, founder of Karaite Judaism Hezekiah Gaon, Exilarch and...

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Karaite Judaism

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approximately 760, Shelomoh ben Ḥisdai II, the Exilarch in Babylon died, and two brothers among his nearest kin, ʻAnan ben David (whose name according to...

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Semah ben Josiah

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Semah ben Josiah (Hebrew: צמח בן יאשיהו) was the great-grandson of Anan ben David, a Nasi, and the head of the Palestinian yeshiva in the 9th century...

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Hasdai ben Hezekiah

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Hasdai ben Hezekiah (Hebrew: חסדאי בן חזקיה) was the son of Hezekiah ben Solomon and thus was the ninth Karaite exilarch of the line of Anan ben David. He...

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Jehoshaphat ben Josiah

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Jehoshaphat ben Josiah (Hebrew: יהושפט בן יאשיהו) was the son of Josiah ben Saul, the great-grandson of Anan ben David, a Nasi, and a Rosh Yeshivah, during...

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Mordecai ben Nissan

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Second Temple under the name "Sadducees," or did it originate with Anan ben David, as the Rabbinites assert? (2) Was Aquila, the proselyte, to whom Menahem...

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Hezekiah ben Solomon

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Hezekiah ben Solomon (Hebrew: חזקיה בן שלמה) was the son of Solomon ben David and thus was the eighth Karaite exilarch of the line of Anan ben David. He lived...

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Dodai ben Nahman

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famed Judah ben Nahman, gaon at Sura (759–762), and with him was instrumental in preventing the eventual founder of Karaism, Anan ben David from succeeding...

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David ben Boaz

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from Anan ben David, the founder of Karaism (he was the son of Boaz ben Jehoshaphat, the son of Jehoshaphat ben Saul, the son of Saul ben Anan, the son...

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Counting of the Omer

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Historically, Karaite and Karaite-adjacent religious leaders such as Anan ben David, Benjamin Nahawandi, Muhammad ibn Isma'il, Musa of Tiflis (founder of...

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Yefet ben Ali

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explain the passage literally. Thus, notwithstanding his veneration for Anan ben David, the founder of Karaism, and for Benjamin Nahawandi, he often rejects...

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Saadia Gaon

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At 23, he composed a polemic against the followers of Anan ben David, particularly Solomon ben Yeruham, thus beginning the activity which was to prove...

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Boaz ben Jehoshaphat

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Boaz ben Jehoshaphat (Hebrew: בעז בן יהושפט) was the son of Jehoshaphat ben Josiah and the great-great-grandson of Anan ben David. He lived in Iraq during...

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Biblical canon

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commentary on Ab. i. 3; Geiger, "Gesammelte Schriften", iii. 283–321; also Anan ben David; Karaites). Bowman, John, ed. (1977). Samaritan Documents, Relating...

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Ukbara

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Jewish/Karaite "heresiarchs", leaders of Karaite movements opposed to Anan ben David, Ishmael al-Ukbari[2] and Meshwi al-Ukbari[3]. It is described in many...

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Jewish schisms

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at least in part by Anan ben David, whereas other Karaites believe that they are not the historical disciples of Anan ben David at all, and point out...

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Exilarch

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exilarch David I: Anan ben David, son of David ben Judah (ca 715 – ca 795 or 811?), considered to be a major founder of the Karaite movement Saul ben Anan, son...

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Eleazar ben Kalir

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halakhic authorities of Anan ben David (the alleged founder of Karaism), and must therefore have lived a considerable time earlier than Anan, Kalir's time may...

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Persian Jews

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religious leader from Hamadan Baba'i ben Lotf – Persian poet, author of the first Judeo-Persian chronicle Anan ben David – founder of the Karaite Movement...

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List of Jews from the Arab world

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rav, amora Anan ben David, founder of Qara'ism Alan Yentob, television executive, broadcaster Avi Shlaim, Oxford Professor Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, politician...

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Sadducees

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Christian texts. In the beginning of Karaite Judaism, the followers of Anan ben David were called "Sadducees" and set a claim of the former being a historical...

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