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This volume presents a critical edition of the Judaeo-Arabic translation and commentary on the book of Esther by Saadia Gaon (882–942). This edition, accompanied by an introduction and extensively annotated English translation, affords access to the first-known personalized, rationalistic Jewish commentary on this biblical book. Saadia innovatively organizes the biblical narrative—and his commentary thereon—according to seven “guidelines” that provide a practical blueprint by which Israel can live as an abased people under Gentile dominion. Saadia’s prodigious acumen and sense of communal solicitude find vivid expression throughout his commentary in his carefully-defined structural and linguistic analyses, his elucidative references to a broad range of contemporary socio-religious and vocational realia, his anti-Karaite polemics, and his attention to various issues, both psychological and practical, attending Jewish-Gentile conviviality in a 10th-century Islamicate milieu.

Saʻadia ben Joseph, --- Bible. --- Ester (Book of the Old Testament) --- Esther (Book of the Old Testament) --- Megilat Aḥashṿerosh --- Megilat Ester --- מגילת אסתר --- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish. --- Saʻadia ben Joseph, - 882-942. - Kitab al-Īnās bi-al-jalwah. - English & Judeo-Arabic

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In Saadya Gaon: The Double Path of the Mystic and the Rationalist Gyongyi Hegedus offers a new perspective on the thought of the most significant medieval Jewish thinker of the pre-Maimonidean era, Saadya Gaon. Saadya’s important philosophical works belong to two distinct traditions: his main work is written in the style of rationalist theology (kalam), but he is also responsible for composing a commentary in a neo-Pythagorean tone. In addition to contextualizing the two traditions and analyzing their Islamic parallels, the book makes the argument that Saadya consciously constructed a two-layered model of thought and harmonized two styles: one based on sensation and logic, the other on a specific prophetic insight.

Jewish philosophy --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Saʻadia ben Joseph, --- Jewish philosophy. --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- 296*4 --- Medieval philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Jews --- Philosophy, Jewish --- Philosophy, Israeli --- Joodse mystiek --- Philosophy --- Saadia ben Joseph, --- 296*4 Joodse mystiek --- Saadiah ben Joseph, --- Seʻadyah Gaʼon ben Yosef, --- Seʻadyah ben Yosef, --- Saʻid ibn Yūsuf, --- Saadya Gaon, --- Saʻid, --- Rasag, --- Resag, --- Joseph, Saʻadia ben, --- Joseph, Saadiah ben, --- Yosef, Seʻadyah Gaʼon ben, --- Yūsuf, Saʻid ibn, --- Fayyūmī, Saʻid ibn Yūsuf, --- Gaon, Saadya, --- Saadiah Gaon, --- Gaon, Saadiah, --- Seʻadyah Gaʼon, --- Gaʼon, Seʻadyah, --- Saʼadia Gaon, --- Gaon, Saʼadia, --- Fayumi, Seʻadyah ben Yosef, --- Seʻadyah, --- Fayyūmī, Saʻadiyā Kaʼūn, --- גאון בן יוסף אלפיומי, סעדיא --- גאון, סעדיה, --- סדעיה בר יוסף --- סעדיא בן יוסף --- סעדיא בן יוסף, --- סעדיא גאון --- סעדיא, --- סעדיה --- סעדיה אלפיומי גאו, --- סעדיה בן גאון, --- סעדיה בן יוסף --- סעדיה בן יוסף הפיתומי, --- סעדיה בן יוסף פיומי, --- סעדיה בן יוסף, גאון --- סעדיה בן יוסף, גאון, --- סעדיה בן יוסף, --- סעדיה בן יוס, --- סעדיה בר יוסף, --- סעדיה גאון --- סעדיה גאון, --- סעדיה הפיתומי --- סעדיה הפיתומי, --- סעדיה, גאון, --- סעדיה, --- רס״ג --- רס״ג, --- רצהבי, יהודה, --- يوسف، سعد بن، --- فيومي، سعد بن يوسف، --- فيومي، سعديا كؤون، --- Saadia Gaon, --- Saʻadia ben Joseph, - 882-942