In several places, the Torah is self -referential. Now, this might normally be a problem in logic, but in terms of religious debate, since the premise is that God gave the Torah, then presumably God can be self-referential. In these references, God advises us of what it takes to be a a proper Israelite. And it is explicitly to be a Karaite:
Deut 28: 58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law
that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and
awful Name, the LORD thy God;
Deut 30: 10 if thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to
keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of
the law; if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul.
The Torah rejects any extra scriptural religion, and that includes the Talmud , Shulchan Aruch etc.
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