Statement

Byzantine Rabbanite Judaism produced few great scholars of law, though many poets and midrashists came from the empire. Byzantine Karaite legalists, by contrast, set the agenda for their whole movement for four centuries. The Rabbanite Tobias ben Eliezer wrote the well-known midrashic compilation Midrash Leqah Tov and took part in a messianic movement that swept the Jews of Greece as the Crusaders moved east.

References

1. p. 210

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   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

   Section: In the Byzantine Empire

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2. p. 210

   supports · boxed feature · ch. 7

   Efron, Lehmann and Weitzman. The Jews: A History. 3rd edition. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

   Section: In the Byzantine Empire

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