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Sa'adyah Gaon /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Hebrew |
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Oxford ; Portland, Oregon :
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization,
2013.
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| Colección: | Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.