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Currently, there exists a small Karaite community which claims to follow only the written law from teh tanach. On a website purporting to represent them, they give a history which lists other sects which, over history, have mirrored their beliefs (including "Sadducees, Boethusians, Ananites").
It is important to note two other points, though. One is the ...
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Pirke Avot 1:1:
Moses received the Torah from Sinai and gave it over to Joshua. Joshua gave it over to the Elders, the Elders to the Prophets, and the Prophets gave it over to the Men of the Great Assembly.
That "a generation arose" does not have to mean every single person after Joshua. It could be that most but not all did not know Hashem (but you ...
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The Rambam discusses this, and is very severe about someone who does so from his own ideas (in contrast to a child who was raised this way):
Rambam - Shoftim - Mamrim - Chapter 3
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A person who does not acknowledge validity of the Oral Law is not the rebellious elder mentioned in the Torah. Instead, he is one of the heretics and he should be ...
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