Saʿadia ben Yosef Gaon (882/892 – 942) was a prominent rabbi, gaon, Jewish philosopher, and exegete who was active in the Abbasid Caliphate. Saadia is...
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The Siddur (prayerbook) of Saadia Gaon is the earliest surviving attempt to transcribe the weekly ritual of Jewish prayers for weekdays, Sabbaths, and...
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On the family pedigrees contained in the biblical pericope of Noah, Saadia Gaon (882‒942) wrote: The Scriptures have traced the patronymic lineage of...
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of Babylon, known in Jewish history especially for his conflict with Saadia Gaon, which ruptured the leadership of the Babylonian Jews, and which was...
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Wisdom", Editions du Cerf Saadia Gaon (1966). Qafih, Yosef (ed.). Psalms, with a Translation and Commentary made by Rabbi Saadia Gaon (in Hebrew). Jerusalem...
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called Saadia are also known as Sa'id. Saadia Gaon seems to have been the first to have borne this forename, and is often just referred to as "Saadia," without...
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Islamic philosophy is Saadia Gaon (892–942). His most important work is Emunoth ve-Deoth (Book of Beliefs and Opinions). In this work Saadia treats of the questions...
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Salmon ben Jeroham (section Response to Saadia)
one of several treatises entitled Milhamoth Adonai, was an attack on Saadia Gaon. In a work entitled Milḥamot Adonai, (not to be confused with books of...
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Saadia may refer to:: Saadia (given name) Saadia Gaon, rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the Geonic period Saadia Ibn Danan (died 1493), rabbi...
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Islamic–Jewish relations (section Saadia Gaon)
philosophy is Rav Saadia Gaon (892–942). His most important work is Emunoth ve-Deoth (Book of Beliefs and Opinions). In this work Saadia treats of the questions...
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reached consensus on the question of its origins. According to Rabbi Saadia Gaon, the objective of the book's author was to convey in writing how the...
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Geonim (section The title "Gaon")
Achai Gaon (died c. 761) Amram Gaon (died 875) Dodai ben Nahman, gaon of the Talmudic academy at Pumbedita (761–764) Hai Gaon (939–1038) Saadia Gaon (882...
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255. Saadia Gaon, Judeo-Arabic Translation of Pentateuch (Tafsir), s.v. Exodus 21:37 and Numbers 33:3 ("רעמסס: "עין שמס); Rabbi Saadia Gaon's Commentaries...
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theologians and philosophers such as Isaac Israeli (c. 832 – c. 932), Saadia Gaon (882/892–942), Ibn Gabirol (11th century), and Judah Halevi (c. 1075–1141)...
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والاعتقادات, romanized: Kitāb al-Amānāt wa l-Iʿtiqādāt) is a book written by Saadia Gaon (completed 933) which is the first systematic presentation and philosophic...
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Atlas Mountains near the river Fut (Phut). Medieval biblical exegete Saadia Gaon, identifies the Ludim with Tanisiin, and which R. Yosef Qafih thought...
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Huna, Rav Chisda, Rav Ashi, Yehudai ben Nahman, Natronai ben Hilai, Saadia Gaon, and others. Abba Arikha arrived at Sura city to find no lively Jewish...
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of Ramesses II. Still earlier, the 10th-century Bible exegete Rabbi Saadia Gaon believed that the biblical site of Ramesses had to be identified with...
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mystical tradition, as it could tend towards piety over legalism. Rabbi Saadia Gaon, the medieval Hebrew linguist and biblical exegete, translated the Hebrew...
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Publishing Company. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-8028-0337-5. Saadia Gaon (1984). Yosef Qafih (ed.). Rabbi Saadia Gaon's Commentaries on the Pentateuch (in Hebrew) (4 ed...
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governor of the Sasanian Egypt (619–629). The 10th-century Bible exegete, Saadia Gaon, thought el-Fayyum to have actually been the biblical city of Pithom...
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Africa were descended from Casluhim, the son of Mizraïm (قبط بن مصر). In Saadia Gaon's Judeo-Arabic translation of the Pentateuch, the Sa'idi people (i.e....
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power within the universe, and governed both planets and constellations. Saadia Gaon, in his own commentary on the Sefer Yetzirah, sought to explain Theli...
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Saadia Gaon, David Kimhi, Hasdai Crescas, Yedayah Bedershi (early 14th century), Joseph Albo, Abraham ibn Daud, the Rosh and Leon de Modena. Saadia Gaon...
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pre-existing taboos. Beginning with Saadia Gaon, several Jewish commentators started to explain these taboos rationalistically; Saadia himself expresses an argument...
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Among well-known rabbis who rejected the idea of reincarnation are Saadia Gaon, David Kimhi, Hasdai Crescas, Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi (early 14th...
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Based on the Judeo-Arabic translation of the word in the works of Rabbi Saadia Gaon (in his Tafsir, a translation of the Pentateuch, Exo. 12:22); Al-Fasi...
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Gaon (Gaon 757–761) Sar Shalom Ben Boaz (Gaon 838–848) Natronai ben Hilai, Gaon of Sura (Gaon to 857) Amram Gaon, Gaon of Sura (Gaon 857–875) Saadia Gaon...
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Kings 23:3–5 may be related. According to 10th-century biblical exegete Saadia Gaon, it literally means "constellations," while others interpret the word...
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Kutub al-Lughah is a work of Hebrew linguistics by Saadia Gaon, twelve "Books on Language" which are also designated as the twelve parts of a work entitled...
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