| Like the Sadducees, the Karaites didn't recognize the authority of the Oral Torah and hence they read the Written Torah literally. |
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| There are also minor errors such as confusing da-at with dat and describing Sadducees and Karaites as heretics. |
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| Both Karaites and Quranites emphasize the authority of their respective holy books, and denial of the authority of tradition is their most basic belief. |
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| These heretics are worse than Karaites or Samaritans, he wrote, and a fortiori, worse than gentiles among whom we reside who are not idolaters and commit no wrong. |
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