Karaites

a Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud; the sect arose in Iraq in the eighth century

ヘブライ語聖書のみを神の啓示による律法の源泉と認め、聖書以後のタルムードの伝統の権威を否定するユダヤ教の一派；8世紀にイラクで起こった