Saʿadia ben Yosef Gaon (892 – 942) was a prominent rabbi, gaon, Jewish philosopher, and exegete who was active in the Abbasid Caliphate. Saadia is the...

The Siddur (prayerbook) of Saadia Gaon is the earliest surviving attempt to transcribe the weekly ritual of Jewish prayers for weekdays, Sabbaths, and...

Saadia may refer to:: Saadia (given name) Saadia Gaon, rabbi, Jewish philosopher, and exegete of the Geonic period Saadia Ibn Danan (died 1493), rabbi...

of Babylon, known in Jewish history especially for his conflict with Saadia Gaon, which ruptured the leadership of the Babylonian Jews, and which was...

On the family pedigrees contained in the biblical pericope of Noah, Saadia Gaon (882‒942) wrote: The Scriptures have traced the patronymic lineage of...

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...

Wisdom", Editions du Cerf Saadia Gaon (1966). Qafih, Yosef (ed.). Psalms, with a Translation and Commentary made by Rabbi Saadia Gaon (in Hebrew). Jerusalem...

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...

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...

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...

mystical tradition, as it could tend towards piety over legalism. Rabbi Saadia Gaon, the medieval Hebrew linguist and biblical exegete, translated the Hebrew...

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...

significant Jewish works, including a number of religious writings by Saadia Gaon, Maimonides and Judah Halevi, were originally written in Judeo-Arabic...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hillel". Saadia Gaon (882‒942) said that it was composed in Aramaic by the Hasmonaeans themselves as the Megillat Beit Hashmonai. Saadia Gaon took particular...

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)...

Atlas Mountains near the river Fut (Phut). Medieval biblical exegete Saadia Gaon, identifies the Ludim with Tanisiin, and which R. Yosef Qafih thought...

genealogies in Genesis, who inhabited Pathros (i.e., Upper Egypt). In Saadia Gaon's Judeo-Arabic translation of the Pentateuch, the Sa'idi people (i.e....

Yetzirah commentary. In this commentary, which was written in 955–956 CE, Saadia Gaon is mentioned as no longer living. The author refers, however, to the...

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...

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...

 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...

Palestinian Gaonate. Some excerpts have been preserved in the Siddur of Saadia Gaon and the Cairo Geniza yielded some important texts, such as the Amidah...

talmudic academies in Babylonia and corresponded with Dosa, the son of Saadia Gaon. He was also instrumental in transferring the center of Jewish theological...

Kings 23:3–5 may be related. According to 10th-century biblical exegete Saadia Gaon, it literally means "constellations," while others interpret the word...

approach to Judaism rooted in authentic sources, including the Talmud, Saadia Gaon and especially Maimonides; to safeguard the older (Baladi) tradition...