Kubicki, Sebastian2025-07-312025-07-312025"Verbum Vitae", 2025, T. 43, nr 2, s. 495-5172451-280Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/8879The article presents—using the Karaite work “The War at the Gates” by Shelomo ben Aharon (17th/18th century; a polemic with rabbinic Judaism)—three common issues related to the analysis of Hebrew manuscripts written before the 19th century. These issues include: (1) determining the fundamental meaning of individual parts of the work; (2) analyzing the argumentative structure of the work’s narrative in relation to its biblical interpretation, which seeks to justify specific religious laws established within the religious community of the tradition/author; (3) verifying certain commonly accepted scholarly assumptions. I demonstrate how I addressed these challenges while working on the aforementioned treatise and attempt to draw generalized, practical conclusions.enAttribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/studies in Karaite literature (Hebrew texts)Karaite religious law (halakha)Shelomo ben Aharonmethodological challengesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article10.31743/vv.17720