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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466434703321

Autore

Brody Robert <1955->

Titolo

Sa'adyah Gaon / / Robert Brody ; translated from the Hebrew by Betsy Rosenberg [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-80034-004-4

1-78694-979-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 pages)

Collana

Liverpool scholarship online

Disciplina

920.0092924

Soggetti

Rabbis - Iraq - Babylonia

Jewish scholars - Iraq - Babylonia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2013.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Geonic period and the background of Sa'adyah Gaon's activities -- Sa'adyah Gaon, revolutionary champion of tradition -- Sa'adyah the philosopher -- Sa'adyah the biblical commentator -- Sa'adyah the linguist -- Sa'adyah the poet -- Sa'adyah, the man of halakhah -- Sa'adyah, polemicist and publicist.

Sommario/riassunto

Sa'adyah Gaon was an outstanding tenth-century Jewish thinker - a prominent rabbi, philosopher, and exegete. He was a pioneer in the fields in which he toiled, and was an inspiration and basis for later Jewish writing in all these areas. The last major English-language study of his work was published in 1921, long before Genizah research changed the understanding of the time in which he lived. This work, covering Sa'adyah's biography and his main areas of creativity in an accessible way, is a reassessment of an outstanding figure.