Sa'adyah Gaon / Robert Brody ; translated from the Hebrew by Betsy Rosenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brody, Robert, Dr., author.

Series:

Liverpool scholarship online.

Liverpool scholarship online

Standardized Title:

Rav Seʻadyah Gaon. English

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942.

Saʻadia ben Joseph.

Rabbis--Iraq--Babylonia--Biography.

Rabbis.

Jewish scholars--Iraq--Babylonia--Biography.

Jewish scholars.

Middle East--Babylonia.

Genre:

Biographies

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 179 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2013.

Summary:

A masterly yet accessible study of an outstanding tenth-century Jewish thinker that examines his life and intellectual achievements in the context of his times.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Note on Transliteration; Arabic and Hebrew Titles of Works Referred To in English; 1. The Geonic Period and the Background of Sa'adyah Gaon's Activities; The Geonic Academies: Continuity and Change; The Exilarchate; The Palestinian Centre and its Competition with Babylonia; The Sectarian Challenge; 2. Sa'adyah Gaon, Revolutionary Champion of Tradition; Sa'adyah's Life: A Brief Overview; Sa'adyah the Revolutionary; Daring in the Service of Tradition; General Characteristics of Sa'adyah's Writing; 3. Sa'adyah the Philosopher.

The Background to Sa'adyah Gaon's PhilosophySa'adyah and Kalam; Sa'adyah's Theological Writings; Sa'adyah's Philosophical Principles; 4. Sa'adyah the Biblical Commentator; The Scope of Sa'adyah's Exegetical Undertakings; Exegetical Principles; Theological and Polemical Dimensions; Attitude to Talmudic Literature; 5. Sa'adyah the Linguist; First Breakthrough: The Egron; Sa'adyah's Other Linguistic Works; General Conceptions; Grammatical Theories; 6. Sa'adyah the Poet; The Foundations of Hebrew Liturgical Poetry; The Evolution of Liturgical Poetry before Sa'adyah's Time.

The Place of Liturgical Poetry in Sa'adyah's WorldDistinctive Features of Sa'adyah's Poetry; Stretching the Bounds of Piyut and the Question of Sa'adyah's Influence; 7. Sa'adyah, the Man of Halakhah; The Variety of Literary Genres; Halakhic Monographs; Sa'adyah's Use of Halakhic Sources; 8. Sa'adyah, Polemicist and Publicist; Religious Debates; Polemic against Critics of the Bible; Polemic against the Karaites; The Calendar Dispute; Sefer Hagalui; Afterword; Bibliography; Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Nov 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80034-004-4

1-78694-979-2

OCLC:

1039921413