Chronicles Confirms the Karaite View

Several statements in the Book of Chronicles point towards the Sadducee-Karaite  view of the Written Torah, and negate claim that there was an Oral Law, Rabbis, and that the Torah was not functional without the oral law.

2 Chron 17

Regarding King Jehoshaphat , it says:

7 Also in the third year of his reign he sent his princes, even Ben-hail, and Obadiah, and Zechariah, and Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;

8 and with them the Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tob-adonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.

9 And they taught in Judah, having the book of the Law of the LORD with them; and they went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught among the people.

They were teaching from the Torah, not the Talmud or proto-oral law.

If the Torah was not functional without the oral law, they would have been giving  Mishnah and Talmud classes.

Further, in 2 Chron 19:

10 And whensoever any controversy shall come to you from your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, ye shall warn them, that they be not guilty towards the LORD, and so wrath come upon you and upon your brethren; thus shall ye do, and ye shall not be guilty.

11 And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king's matters; also the officers of the Levites before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD be with the good.

What a surprise, the verse from Deut 17 , which the rabbis allege is referring to a Phariseeic  “Sanhedrin” [ a Greek word, not Hebrew],  is restated here in Chronicles.  This is not a Sanhedrin, but a priestly authority for all religious matters; a Prince for political matters, and Levites as legal support. There are no rabbis or Pharisees.   This interpretation of Deut 17 is totally in line with the Sadducee theology, and refutes that of the Pharisees.