Yefet Ben Eli: The Commentary on the Torah. The Book of Genesis, Volume II: Ch. 21-40: The Hebrew Arabic Text (Hebrew Edition)($40.00Value)

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Yefet ben Eli belongs to the golden age of the medieval Hebrew Bible commentators. It was the time of a major division in Judaism between Rabbanites and Karaites: between masters of orthodox Judaism who attribute a fundamental role to the oral tradition, represented by the Talmudic literature, and the Karaites, who were the first in Judaism to insist on Sola Scriptura , centuries before the same adage became the axiom of the Protestant movement in Christianity. The importance of the early medieval biblical commentaries by Rabbanites and Karaites alike is that their doctrinal differences mainly appear in their biblical commentaries, particularly in their commentary on the Torah. The Book of Genesis, commented by Yefet ben Eli, is a brilliant example of this dual benefit: an original exegetical commentary and an early witness of an important historical event in Judaism.