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R. Saadia Gaon – Intellectual Profile
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Name | R. Saadia Gaon, Rasag, Saadia ben Joseph Al-Fayyumi ר' סעדיה גאון, רס"ג, סעדיה בן יוסף הפיומי |
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Dates | 882-942 |
Location | Egypt / Baghdad |
Works | Targum and Commentary on Tanakh, Emunot VeDeiot, Siddur, Halakhic, Sefer HaMitzvot, Sefer HaAgron |
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Impacted on | Ibn Ezra, R. Avraham Ben HaRambam |
Background
Life
- Name – Saadia (or Saadiah, Saadya) ben Yosef “al-Fiyumi” (from the Fayyūm district)
- Hebrew name – סעדיה בן יוסף פיומי
- Arabic name – Saˁīd b. Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī
- Dates – 882 - 942
- Location – Born in Dilāṣ, in the Fayyūm district of Upper Egypt. Later moved to Tiberius, Israel and then Baghdad.
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- Occupation – For the last sixteen years of his life, R. Saadia served as the Gaon (head) of the Yeshiva of Sura.
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- Biblical commentaries – Saadia composed an Arabic translation of the entire Tanakh, which he titled "Tafsīr,"1 as well as a longer commentary on approximately half of the Torah and a few other books of Tanakh, including Yeshayah, Mishlei, Tehillim, Iyyov, and Daniel.2
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