title: Sources of the Seven Sages Stories in Crimean Karaim
abstract: The aim of this article is to introduce a little known version of the story of the Seven Sages in the Karaim Language, spoken in the Crimea, but written using the Hebrew alphabet. Throughout the article, reasoned arguments with evidence or various expert but evidentially unsupported opinions, usually because of missing earlier sources, are presented to support this hypothesis. Moreover, a necessarily brief overview of the Seven Sages type stories is discussed to set the background to our researc
journal: Acta Orientalia