Mors Rattus posted:

The big difference is that the Karaim accept only the Written Law - that is, the actual text of the Torah - and not the Oral Law that accompanies it and makes up quite a lot of Jewish tradition. They also aim for the most clear, obvious and literal meaning of the Written Law as possible, whereas other Jewish traditions will do things like say 'okay so this whole kid and its mother's milk thing comes up three times without context, it clearly has to mean something besides the literal.'