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2210:, and he created in part the categories and rules along whose lines was developed the grammatical study of the Hebrew language. His dictionary, primitive and merely practical as it was, became the foundation of Hebrew lexicography; and the name "Agron" (literally, "collection"), which he chose and doubtless created, was long used as a designation for Hebrew lexicons, especially by the Karaites. The very categories of rhetoric, as they were found among the Arabs, were first applied by Saadia to the style of the Bible. He was likewise one of the founders of comparative philology, not only through his brief "Book of Seventy Words," already mentioned, but especially through his explanation of the Hebrew vocabulary by the Arabic, particularly in the case of the favorite translation of Biblical words by Arabic terms having the same sound. 2171: 2155: 2416:). Saadia's objective here was to show the parallelism between the truths delivered to the people of Israel by Divine revelation, on the one side, and the necessary conclusions that can also be reached by way of rational observation, on the other. The effect of these ideas expressed in his philosophical books are clearly reflected in Saadia's story of creation, especially when he comes to deal with the theological problems, such as in the verse of Deuteronomy 4:24: “For the LORD your God is a devouring fire,” which constitutes an example of a verse that cannot be understood in its plain context, but should rather be understood in such a way as not to contradict one's definite knowledge that God does not change, nor can anything corporeal be associated with him. 125: 2676:(1921) 423-428. Malter rejected 882 because it conflicted with other known events in Saadia's life. He suspected an error by a copyist. The year 882 is now generally accepted because its source is closer to his death in both time and space. Abraham Firkovich had previously held the opinion that Saadia Gaon was born in 862, based on the view that he was aged twenty when he first began writing his 1153:), claimed a tradition according to which the cutoff point was 642/1080 of an hour (approximately 35 minutes) after noon. In that particular year, this change would result in a two-day schism with the major Jewish communities in Babylonia: according to Ben Meir the first day of Passover would be on a Sunday, while according to the generally accepted rule it would be on Tuesday. 3775: 2387:), containing the texts of the prayers, commentary in Arabic and original synagogal poetry. Of this synagogal poetry the most noteworthy portions are the "Azharot" on the 613 commandments, which give the author's name as "Sa'id b. Joseph", followed by the title "Alluf," thus showing that the poems were written before he became gaon. 2008:); they have hastened after some other thing; I shall not pour out their libations of blood, neither shall I take-up their names upon my lips," writing instead: "They will multiply their revenues (Judeo-Arabic:אכסאבהם); they have hastened after some other thing," etc. Even where a certain explanation is given in the 2256:, in which no process of creation is described, and the process described in Sefer Yetzirah (matter formed by speech). The cosmogony of Sefer Yetzirah is even omitted from the discussion of creation in his magnum opus "Kitab al-Amanat wal-I'tiḳadat." Concerning the supposed attribution of the book to the patriarch 2426:, written while its author was still residing in Egypt (or Israel), and intended to explain in a scientific manner how the universe came into existence. On the linguistic aspect, Saadia combines a debate on the letters and on their attributes (e.g. phonemes), as well as a debate on related linguistic matters. 2248:, Saadia sought to render lucid and intelligible the content of this esoteric work by the light of philosophy and scientific knowledge, especially by a system of Hebrew phonology which he himself had founded. He did not permit himself in this commentary to be influenced by the theological speculations of the 2190:
of a large portion of Judaism, it served for centuries as a potent factor in the impregnation of the Jewish spirit with Arabic culture, so that, in this respect, it may take its place beside the Greek Bible-translation of antiquity and the German translation of the Pentateuch by Moses Mendelssohn. As
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Saadia Gaon was a pioneer in the fields in which he toiled. The foremost object of his work was the Bible; his importance is due primarily to his establishment of a new school of Biblical exegesis characterized by a rational investigation of the contents of the Bible and a scientific knowledge of the
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The commentary contained, as is stated in the author's own introduction to his translation of the Pentateuch, not only an exact interpretation of the text, but also a refutation of the cavils which the heretics raised against it. Further, it set forth the bases of the commandments of reason and the
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received by him. Saadia's method of conveying names for the fowls based on what he had received by way of an oral tradition prompted him to add in his defense: "Every detail about them, had one of them merely come unto us , we would not have been able to identify it for certain, much less recognize
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did not interrupt his literary activity. His principal philosophical work was completed in 933; and four years later, through Ibn Sargado's father-in-law, Bishr ben Aaron, the two enemies were reconciled. Saadia was reinstated in his office; but he held it for only five more years. David b. Zakkai
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about Saadia ben Yosef "the sage," in which he ends a dispute between a servant who claims to be the heir of his deceased master and the man's true son and heir by having them both draw blood into separate vessels. He then took a bone from the deceased man and placed it into each of the cups. The
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and midrashic literature was ambivalent. Although he adopted them in his liturgies, he did not recoil from denouncing them in his commentary on the Bible whenever he thought that they broke-away from the plain and ordinary meaning of the text. Saadia adopts in principle the method of the
2408:: This work, first compiled in 933 CE, of which several revisions were made until its final redaction, is considered to be the first systematic attempt to synthesize the Jewish tradition with philosophical teachings. Prior to Saadia, the only other Jew to attempt any such fusion was 1184:
His dispute with Ben Meir was an important factor in his call to Sura in 928. The Exilarch insisted on appointing him as Gaon "head of the academy" despite the weight of precedent (no foreigner had ever served as Gaon before) and against the advice of the aged Nissim Nahrwani, a
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He wrote both in Hebrew and in Arabic a work, now known only from a few fragments, entitled "Sefer ha-Galui" (Arabic title, "Kitab al-Ṭarid"), in which he emphasized with great but justifiable pride the services which he had rendered, especially in his opposition to heresy.
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at Sura, who feared a confrontation between the two strong-willed personalities, Exilarch David and Saadia. Nissim declared, however, that if David was determined to see Saadia in the position, then he would be ready to become the first of Saadia's followers.
3600:(1988). Goodman writes that his edition "would have been impossible without the careful Arabic edition of Saadiah's translation and commentary that we owe to the indefatigable industry of Ḳāfiḥ, whose notes and glosses are frequently acknowledged in my own" ( 2260:, he allows that the ideas it contains might be ancient. Nonetheless, he clearly considered the work worthy of deep study and echoes of Sefer Yetzirah's cosmogony do appear in "Kitab al-Amanat wal-I'tiḳadat" when Saadia discusses his theory of prophecy. 2440:"Kitab al-Tamyiz" (in Hebrew, "Sefer ha-Hakkarah"), or "Book of Distinction," composed in 926, and Saadia's most extensive polemical work. It was still cited in the twelfth century; and a number of passages from it are given in a Biblical commentary of 2436:
Refutations of Karaite authors, always designated by the name "Kitab al-Radd," or "Book of Refutation." These three works are known only from scanty references to them in other works; that the third was written after 933 is proved by one of the
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bone in the cup of the true heir absorbed the blood, while the servant's blood was not absorbed in the bone. Using this as genetic proof of the son's true inheritance, Saadia had the servant return the man's property to his son.
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Short monographs in which problems of Jewish law are systematically presented. Of these Arabic treatises, little but the titles and extracts is known, and it is only in the "Kitab al-Mawarith" that fragments of any length have
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7a as meaning "each spice pounded separately"), Saadia deviates from the rabbinic tradition in his Judeo-Arabic translation of the Pentateuch, in this case explaining its sense as "having them made of equal portions."
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had subscribed to it. When the son of the exilarch threatened Saadia with violence to secure his compliance and was roughly handled by Saadia's servant, open war broke out between the exilarch and the gaon. Each
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His system of hermeneutics was not limited to the exegesis of individual passages, but treated also each book of the Bible as a whole, and showed the connection of its various portions with one another.
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a means of popular religious enlightenment, Saadia's translation presented the Scriptures even to the unlearned in a rational form which aimed at the greatest possible degree of clarity and consistency.
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died before him (c. 940), being followed a few months later by the exilarch's son Judah, while David's young grandson was nobly protected by Saadia as by a father. According to a statement made by
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the other, declaring that he deposed his opponent from office. David ben Zakkai appointed Joseph ben Jacob Gaon of Sura and Saadia conferred the exilarchate on David's brother Hasan (Josiah; 930).
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After only two years of teaching, Saadia recused himself from teaching because of a dispute that had fallen out between him and the Exilarch. During Saadia's absence, his post was occupied by
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This (כתאב אלאמאנאת ואלאעתקאדאת ) was the name of Saadia's first edition, later emended by Saadia to אלמכ'תאר פי אלאמאנאת ואלאעתקאדאת (Hebrew: הנבחר באמונות ובדעות) as described by
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Ashur, Amir; Nir, Sivan; Polliack, Meira (2017). "Three Fragments of Saʿadya Gaon's Arabic Translation of Isaiah Copied by the Court Scribe Joseph ben Samuel (c. 1181–1209)".
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In some instances, Saadia's biblical translations reflect his own rationale of difficult Hebrew words based on their lexical root, and he will, at times, reject the earlier
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that even the episodic-like parts of the Bible (e.g. story of Abraham and Sarah, the selling of Joseph, etc.) that do not contain commandments have a moral lesson to tell.
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fragment containing a list of Saadia's writings compiled by his sons eleven years after his death, which stated that he was "sixty years less forty ... days" at death.
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interpretations of so many others, thus identifying a spiritual purpose of a religious vessel within that religious and spiritual instilling schema of purpose and use.
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characterization of the commandments of revelation; in the case of the former the author appealed to philosophical speculation; of the latter, naturally, to tradition.
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There was perhaps a special polemic of Saadia against Ben Zuta, though the data regarding this controversy between is known only from the gaon's gloss on the Torah.
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The traditional birth year of 892 was exclusively cited before 1921 and is still occasionally cited. It rests on a statement by the twelfth-century historian
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is founded upon the prayer format edited originally by Saadia. The Yemenite Jewish community also adopted thirteen penitential verse written by Saadia for
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or head of Babylonian Jewry, petitioned Saadia to assume the honorary title of gaon, where he was appointed that same year the Gaon of Sura Academy at
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has been exceptionally great, as many of Saadia's extant works were preserved by the community and used extensively by them. The basis for the
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entered upon a new period of brilliancy. This renaissance was cut short by a clash between Saadia and David, much as Nissim had predicted.
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for his own understanding. For example, in Psalm 16:4, Saadia retracts from the Targum (translated): "They will multiply their goddesses (
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Ivry, Alfred L. (1989). "The contribution of Alexander Altmann to the study of medieval Jewish philosophy". In Arnold Paucker (ed.).
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Is the hill of God the hill of Bashan? A hunchback mountain is the hill of Bashan! (Meaning, it is unfit for God's Divine Presence).
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and noting where the verse is to be read as a rhetorical question, and where the verse itself derides the question with good humor:
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Book of Psalms with a Translation and Commentary of Rabbi Saadia Gaon (תהלים עם תרגום ופירוש הגאון רבינו סעדיה בן יוסף פיומי זצ"ל)
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Saadia translated the Humash and some of the other books of the Hebrew Bible into Judeo-Arabic, adding a Judeo-Arabic commentary.
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Saadia Gaon's version of the text itself along with his Judeo-Arabic commentary with facing Hebrew translation by Rabbi
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That mountain wherein God desires to dwell (i.e. Mount Moriah in Jerusalem), even the Lord shall dwell forever more.
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The position assigned to Saadia in the oldest list of Hebrew grammarians, which is contained in the introduction to
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In a probate case, Saadia refused to sign a verdict of the exilarch, which he thought unjust, although the Gaon of
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in 942, at the age of sixty, of "black gall" (melancholia), repeated illnesses having undermined his health.
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The question often asked by scholars now is whether Saadia applied this principle in his other translations.
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only once or very rarely, and which may be explained from traditional literature, especially from the Neo-
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that Saadia was "about fifty" years old when he died. The modern birth year of 882 rests on an 1113 CE
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and the scholars of the academies, adding his letters to those sent by them to the communities of the
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The Jewish History Resource Center - Project of the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History, The
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However, Saadia assures his readers elsewhere that when he rendered translations for the twenty-odd
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In 922, six years before Saadia was appointed Gaon of Babylonia, a controversy arose concerning the
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Extant portion of introduction published with English translation by S. Atlas and M. Perlmann in
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Stroumsa, Sarah (2003). "Saadya and Jewish kalam". In Frank, Daniel H.; Leaman, Oliver (eds.).
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http://hebrew-academy.huji.ac.il/al_haakademya/haverim/haverimbeavar/Pages/yehudaratsabi.aspx
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5:1, where it is proven that a dead frog is not the same as one of the dead creeping things.
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In 921, Saadia triumphed over Gaon Aaron ben Meïr over the latter's introduction of a new
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English translation "goddesses" follows the Aramaic Targum of Psalm 16:4, where the word
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As for "frogs" and "toads," according to Maimonides (Mishnah commentary, Introduction to
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in Leviticus 11:30, the original meaning of the word is none other that chameleon lizard.
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represents the first systematic attempt to integrate Jewish theology with components of
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The Book of Psalms, with a Translation and Commentary by Rabbi Saadia ben Yosef Gaon
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Masliyah, Sadok (1979–1980). "Saadia Gaon's Arabic Version of the Book of Isaiah".
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PROVERBS 10-31, Volume 18 - Michael V. Fox - Yale University Press 2009 - 704 pages
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Leader's Project: Studies in the Philosophical and Exegetical Works of Saadya Gaon
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Saadia's works were the inspiration and basis for later Jewish writers, such as
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Rabbi Saadia Gaon's reference here is to the lizard that is called in Arabic:
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Saadya and Jewish Kalam: The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy
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A Short History of the Jewish People: From Legendary Times to Modern Statehood
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Tobi, Yosef (1984). "Sa'adia's Biblical Exegesis and his Poetic Practice".
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has been preserved saying that he was compelled to leave Egypt and died in
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is of importance for the history of civilization; itself a product of the
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At the age of 20, Saadia began composing his first great work, the Hebrew
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based on the phonetic similarity of its Arabic name with the Hebrew. The
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In another apparent deviation from Talmudic tradition, where the Talmud (
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Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, Vol. 14 (1944)
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Sefer Tehillim - with a Translation and Commentary of Rabbi Saadia Gaon
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and Zohar Amar correct the Judeo-Arabic text to read "אלחרבא" (Arabic:
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Iyyov (Book of Job) (translated to English by Dr. Goodman), and Mishlei
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Saadia is the first important rabbinic figure to write extensively in
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and doubtless derived from Saadia's son Dosa, Saadia himself died in
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Book of Beliefs & Opinions (Sefer ha-Nivḥar ba-emunot uva-deʻot)
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Book of Beliefs & Opinions (Sefer ha-Nivḥar ba-emunot uva-deʻot)
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Laws of the Sanctification of the Moon, chs. 6-10, written c. 1170.
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Tehillim (Judeo-Arabic translation and commentary, which he called
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Hebrew translation along with the original Judeo-Arabic by Rabbi
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Hebrew translation along with the original Judeo-Arabic by Rabbi
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A refutation directed against the rationalistic Biblical critic
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In the year 928, at the age of thirty-six (variant: forty-six),
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Under his leadership, the ancient academy of Sura founded by
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Torah- Original Commentary in Arabic By Rabbi Saadia Gaon,
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Baron, "Saadia's communal activities", 2925:Abraham ibn Ezra's Commentary of the Pentateuch 1052:. In the same year, he left Egypt and moved to 902:. Saadia was also very active in opposition to 3108: 2530:("our Rabbi Saadia Gaon"), often abbreviated 1939:In Saadia's translation and commentary on the 1212:Hasan was forced to flee and died in exile in 4105: 3939: 3439: 3437: 3026: 2304:into Judeo-Arabic and wrote an introduction. 1027:, an identification found in Saadia's works. 935:in 915 at the age of 23, where he studied in 827: 19:"Saadia" redirects here. For other uses, see 3870:. Brooklyn, NY: Shaar Press. pp. 4–12. 3260: 3245: 3054:, Mekhon Moshe: Kiryat-Ono 2016, pp. 13, 66 2871: 2869: 2867: 2817: 2696: 2609:Jews in Islamic countries in the Middle Ages 2606: 2567: 2362:, preserved only in a Hebrew translation by 892:". In this capacity, his philosophical work 3959:Senses of Scripture, Treasures of Tradition 3783: 3698: 3519:http://www.virtualgeula.com/moshe/catd1.jpg 3406: 3306: 3105:, species that were once endemic to Israel. 2898: 2521:סַעֲדְיָה בֶּן יוֹסֵף אַלְפַיּוּמִי גָּאוֹן 2134: 4112: 4098: 3434: 2702: 2607:Gil, Moshe & Strassler, David (2004). 1133:. One of these rules required the date of 1129:' Code) rather than on observation of the 834: 820: 5001:Burials at the Old Jewish Cemetery, Safed 4315:Mattithiah ha-Kohen b. Ravrevay b. Hanina 4015:Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry 3084:, Israel Gukovitzki, London 1992, p. 140. 2864: 2391: 2239: 2114:The fourteen years which Saadia spent in 3895: 3659:, appended to Kafih's edition of Daniel. 3596:Published in the Yale Judaica Series as 2977:, Mossad Harav Kook: Jerusalem 1984, p. 2878:Yalqut Teman - Lexicon of Yemenite Jewry 2876:Tobi, Yosef; Seri, Shalom, eds. (2000). 2875: 2734: 2588:(slug), based on Rashi's translation of 2169: 2153: 2090:) is a bird that harbingers rain in the 1265: 1112: 951:. In 926, Saadia settled permanently in 3757:(with Rabbi Saadia Gaon's Commentary), 3653:Saadia on the Scroll of the Hasmonaeans 3136:, Mekhon Moshe: Kiryat-Ono 2016, p. 12 2217:in his encyclopedic philosophical work 447:Maimonidean / Anti-Maimonidean 4893: 3443: 3376: 3333: 2358:A commentary on the thirteen rules of 2030:63a) names a biblical species of fowl 1962:לָמָּה תְּרַצְדוּן הָרִים גַּבְנֻנִּים 1179: 4473:Bebai ha-Levi ben Abba of Nehar Pekod 4093: 3418:(in Hebrew) (4 ed.). Jerusalem: 2430: 2307: 1011:refers to Saadia's native place, the 4966:Translators of the Bible into Arabic 4600:Israel ha-Kohen ben Samuel ben Hofni 3944:. 20/21. 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(1901–1906). 3728:(Abstract), Haifa University 2017 3551:https://www.hebrewbooks.org/39855 3244:Or what is also spelt in Arabic: 2635:, jewishencyclopedia.com; Article 2327:Kitāb faṣīḥ lughat al-‘ibrāniyyīn 1141:occurred at noon or later. Rabbi 4666:Isaac ben Israel Ibn al-Shuwaykh 3793:. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. 3773: 3157:is a generic term including the 2402:Kitāb al-amānāt wa-al-iʿatiqādāt 1658:southern white-breasted hedgehog 1309:his translation was based on an 947:or theologian also mentioned by 923:Saadia was born in Dilāẓ in the 895:The Book of Beliefs and Opinions 849:(882/892 – 942) was a prominent 123: 4991:Jewish translators of the Bible 3840:Saadia Gaon: His life and works 3748: 3731: 3718: 3692: 3675: 3662: 3641: 3624: 3607: 3590: 3573: 3556: 3539: 3511: 3502: 3475: 3400: 3370: 3353: 3327: 3280: 3268: 3253: 3238: 3226: 3201: 3172: 3147: 3087: 2984: 2938: 2918: 2892: 2855: 2846: 2837: 2823:The Iggeres of Rav Sherira Gaon 2811: 2798: 2780: 2703:Scheindlin, Raymond P. 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Leiden: Brill. p. 348. 2600: 2499: 2481:Rabbi Yosef Qafih: Saadia Gaon 2105: 391:Mansur ibn Sulayman al-Ghamari 1: 3767: 3685:on pages 8-9 of his edition ( 3450:Work and Customs in Palestine 2526:; alternative English names: 2226:a cock girded about the loins 918: 44: 4951:Medieval Jewish philosophers 4936:10th-century Egyptian rabbis 4839:Sar Shalom ben Moses ha-Levi 4819:Masliah ben Solomon ha-Cohen 4809:Abiathar ben Elijah ha-Cohen 4554:Hilai ben Natronai ben Hilai 4509:Mesharsheya Kahana ben Jacob 4468:Mari ha-Levi ben Mesharsheya 4443:Mari ha-Kohen of Nehar Pekod 4310:Menahem ben Joseph ben Hiyya 3553:but missing pages רמד-רמה ). 3307:Ben-Shammai, Haggai (2015). 2792:www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org 2666:A fihrist of Sa'adya's works 2552:Saadia ben Joseph Al-Fayyumi 2406:Book of Beliefs and Opinions 1363: 1228:Saadia's influence upon the 1223: 913: 606:Eliezer ben Elijah Ashkenazi 7: 4916:10th-century Abbasid rabbis 4814:Solomon ben Elijah ha-Cohen 4804:Elijah ben Solomon ha-Cohen 4789:Solomon ben Joseph ha-Cohen 4661:Isaac ben al-Awani ha-Cohen 4646:Eleazer ben Hillel ben Fahd 4621:Isaac ben Moses ben Sukkari 4605:Azariah ha-Kohen ben Israel 4483:Jacob ha-Kohen ben Mordecai 4041:Yom-Tob Kahana ben R. Jacob 3828:The Jewish Quarterly Review 3670:Or Rišon Beḥokhmat ha-Lašon 3384:(in Hebrew). Translated by 3337:(1966). 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Index

Saadia (disambiguation)
Fayyum
Egypt
Sura
Safed Old Jewish Cemetery
Medieval philosophy
Dosa ben Saadia
Jewish philosophy
Guide for the Perplexed
Hellenistic
Hasmonean
Sadducean
Pharisee
Boethusian
Aristobulus of Alexandria
Philo of Alexandria
Medieval
Brethren of Purity
Ibn Bajjah (Avempace)
Ismaili philosophy
Jewish Kalam
Kabbalah
Rabbinic Judaism
Hasdai ibn Shaprut
Ibn Gabirol
Abraham bar Hiyya
Bahya ibn Paquda
Judah Halevi
Abraham ibn Daud
Joseph ibn Tzaddik

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