Boaz ben Jehoshaphat (
Hebrew
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: בעז בן יהושפט) was the son of
Jehoshaphat ben Saul
Jehoshaphat ben Saul (Hebrew: יהושפט בן שאול) was the son of Saul ben Anan and the grandson of Anan ben David. He lived in Iraq during the early ninth century. Jehoshaphat was ''nasi'' and resh galuta of the nascent Karaite movement of ...
and the great-grandson of
Anan ben David
Anan Ben David (c. 715 - c. 795) ( he, ענן בן דוד) is widely considered to be a major founder of the Karaite movement of Judaism. His followers were called Ananites and, like modern Karaites, did not believe the Rabbinic Jewish oral law ...
. He lived in
Iraq
Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...
during the mid ninth century. As the direct lineal heir of Anan, Boaz was ''
nasi
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'' and
resh galuta
The exilarch was the leader of the Jewish community in Persian Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) during the era of the Parthians, Sasanians and Abbasid Caliphate up until the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258, with intermittent gaps due to ongoing ...
of the
Karaite Jews
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. He was the father of
David ben Boaz David ben Boaz (Hebrew: דוד בן בעז, Arabic: Abu Sa'id Dawud ibn Bu'az) was a Karaite Jewish scholar who flourished in the tenth century CE. He is reported to have been the fifth in the line of descent from Anan ben David, the founder of Kar ...
.
Karaite rabbis
Karaite exilarchs
9th-century rabbis
Year of death unknown
Jewish royalty
Year of birth unknown
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