Discussions on the affiliation of the religious beliefs of the Khazars and Karaites to Judaism in the works of religious scholars and Jewish theologians
https://doi.org/10.26907/2079-5912.2024.4.53-62
Abstract
The author in the article raises the issue of changing the confessional attitude towards the alleged ethnic religion of the Khazars and the dogma of the ethnic religion of the Karaites. The author pays special attention to the regularities of the emergence and development of the tendency to identify these creeds with Judaism, despite significant dogmatic differences and differences in rituals. Considering the use of historical sources by Jewish ideologists and scientists to substantiate the theory of belonging of Karaism and the Khazar religion to Judaism, the author analyzes the arguments from the point of view of both the principle of historicism and the comparative theological method, identifying both substantiated evidence and elements of falsification. Based on the research, the author concludes that the theory of the identity of the Khazar religion and Karaism with Judaism is political, not theological.
About the Author
A. A. Gorin
Kazan Federal University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Gorin Anton Anatolyevich, Associate Professor, Institute of Social and Philosophical Sciences and Mass Communications, Department of Religious Studies
Author ID: 796791
Kazan, 420008
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Gorin A.A. Discussions on the affiliation of the religious beliefs of the Khazars and Karaites to Judaism in the works of religious scholars and Jewish theologians. The Kazan Socially-Humanitarian Bulletin. 2024;(4(67)):53-62. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2079-5912.2024.4.53-62
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