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the reconstruction of the original silluq, which is given here for the first
time in its pristine form. The silluq employs a “double” structure, attested
elsewhere in the Yannai corpus: the first part consists of a patter poem
(rahit), while the second is composed in a freer form which employs mostly
parallelism and rhyme as devices for structuring the strophes.

Early Karaite Interpretation to
Deuteronomy 22:13-21

Eliezer Schlossberg

Department of Arabic, Bar-Ilan University

Joseph Fleishman

Department of Biblical Studies, Bar-Ilan University

Published in this paper for the first time are passages taken from the
commentaries of two of the most important Karaite biblical interpreters of
the 10th and 11th centuries, Yafeth ben Eli and Yeshua ben Yehuda, on the
issue of “the slandered bride” (Deut. 22:13-21). The study quotes the Judeo-
Arabic sources, and adds an annotated translation. It includes a detailed
discussion of the commentaries of the Sages and Gaonim on this issue,
allowing for a comparative analysis with the early Karaite interpreters. The
discussion can help uncover the origins of early Karaite law, and how it
crystallized during its early development.