Saadia Gaon

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Saadia Ben Yosseph Gaon (892 - 942), known as Saïd Al-Fayyoumi , was the director of the talmudic academy of Poumbedita. High religious authority and one of the philosophical first of the Judaism, it is known to be the principal craftsman of the recession of the Karaïsme within the Jewish world.

Biography

Jewish Theologist , born in Egypt in 892, it is named with the head of the rabbinical academy of Poumbedita in 922, from where its title of Gaon. In 928, he becomes director of the academy of Sura, then on the decline. He is opposed to the authority representing exiled Jewish of Babylonia, and must withdraw himself. He then writes in Arabic the Book of the beliefs and convictions , influenced by Aristote and Plato. He translates the Bible into Arabic, writes comments on the biblical books and composes of the liturgical Hebrew poems. He polemizes with the movement of the Caraïtes ( Fils of the Writing ), which disavows the rabbinical oral tradition with the profit of the only Writings.

He dies in 942.

Works

He wrote a comment which the posterity will take as a starting point, but he is especially known to be the author of Emounot veDeot ( the Book of the beliefs and convictions , literally raw Choses and things sweat , originally Kitab Al-Amanat wal-l' tikadat , the " Deliver on the Articlees of faith and the Doctrines of Dogme"), first systematic presentation of the judaïque doctrines as well as its philosophical elements.

Saadia Gaon is inspired in découpement by work by systematic by Mutazilites:

  1. Problems metaphysics which the creation of the world poses,
  2. Unité of God,
  3. Théorie of the Révélation,
  4. divine justice, in terms of obedience or disobedience,
  5. the merit and the demerit
  6. the heart and
  7. death the resurrection of dead (which, according to the author belongs to
  8. the redemption at Messianic times.) the
  9. Récompenses and punishments in the world to come.

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