© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2020 | doi:10.1163/1872471X-bja10008 European Journal of Jewish Studies 15 (2021) 169–181 brill.com/ejjs Book Reviews ∵ Yoram Erder, The Karaite Mourners of Zion and the Qumran Scrolls. On the History of an Alternative to Rabbinic Judaism (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017), ISBN: 978-2-503-54336-9, vi + 483 pp., €95,00 Ilana Sasson, The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ‘Eli on the Book of Proverbs, vol. 1, Edition and Introduction, Karaite Texts and Studies Volume 8 (Leiden: Brill, 2016), IS BN: 978-90-04-31749-9, xviii + 528 pp., €175.00 Golda Akhiezer, Historical Consciousness, Haskalah, and Nationalism among the Karaites of Eastern Europe, Karaite Texts and Studies Volume 10 (Leiden: Brill, 2018), IS BN: 978-90-04-36058-7, xviii + 369 pp., €110.00 Karaite studies have flourished in the past few decades, mainly as a result of the opening up of the Firkowicz collections in the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg. Scholars have discovered and published texts that were vir- tually unknown, and students of Karaite history, exegesis, literature, thought, linguistics, and languages now have multiple new sources with which to work. Although Karaism is still not an integral part of Jewish studies, as more and more material becomes available, it will be harder to ignore the significant contribution of Karaites to Jewish culture and tradition.1 1  For surveys of some recent publications, see my reviews; Daniel J. Lasker, “Miriam Goldstein, Karaite Exegesis in Medieval Jerusalem: The Judeo-Arabic Pentateuch Commentary of Yūsuf ibn Nūḥ and Abū al-Faraj Hārūn”; “Meira Polliack and Eliezer Schlossberg, Yefet ben ‘Eli’s Commentary on Hosea: Annotated Edition, Hebrew Translation and Introduction”; “Nadia Vidro, Verbal Morphology in the Karaite Treatise on Hebrew Grammar Kitāb al-‘uqūd fī taṣārīf al-luġa al-‘ibrāniyya”; “Barry Dov Walfish with Mikhail Kizilov, Bibliographia Karaitica: An Annotated Bibliography of Karaites and Karaism”; “Joachim J. M. S. Yeshaya, Medieval Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Egypt: The Secular Poetry of the Karaite Poet Moses ben Abraham Dar‘ī”; “Marzena Zawanowska, The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ̔Eli the Karaite on the Abraham Narratives (Genesis 11:10–25:18),” Journal of Jewish Studies 63(2) (2012): 373–378; idem, “Ofra Tirosh-Becker, Rabbinic Excerpts in Medieval Karaite Literature”; “James T. Robinson, Asceticism, Eschatology, Opposition to Philosophy: The Arabic Translation and Commentary of