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This chapter describes the Karaite movement, a scripturalist community originating in medieval Judaism that rejected the authority of Jewish oral law as canonized in the major works of rabbinic literature. The Karaites’ intellectual tradition and thought on the Hebrew Bible, which has often been marginalized from most discussions of “mainstream” Judaism, formed an inseparable part of medieval Jewish history and intellectual tradition, fostering and carrying further its innovative spirit, especially in the realm of biblical interpretation.