Noah Tetenbaum

Noah Tetenbaum is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at Brown University, with a research focus on the intellectual history of the Jews of the medieval Islamic world. His dissertation explores conceptions of the ancient Jewish sacrificial cult among 10th-century Karaite Jews, mediated by earlier Jewish and contemporary Arab-Islamic cultural and intellectual currents, as represented in Karaite Arabic Bible translation commentaries.

Medieval Karaite Jewish Bible Exegesis and the Ancient Sacrificial Cult
I study the Karaites, an anti-rabbinic Jewish sect that crystallized in the Near East at the turn of the 10th century. In my dissertation, I use medieval Karaite Bible commentaries written in Arabic to understand Karaite views of the ancient Jewish sacrificial system. I traveled to Jerusalem, Munich, and the UK over the summer in order to visit a Karaite museum and synagogue, view manuscripts, and connect with scholars in Karaite and Judeo-Arabic studies.