Capitolo 33
The Letters of the Gaonim have the small pretense to literary form. Them
it is the more first champions of that that became an a lot of branch of characteristic
of the Jewish literature. "Questions and Answers" (u-Teshuboth_ of _Shaaloth)
you abound in later times in all the you look for Hebrews, and there is anybody true
makes parallel to them in some other literature. More they will be said later as
to these curious jobs. Then as it pertains to the period of Gaonic the,
characteristics of these thousand of letters it is lucidity of thought
and conciseness of expression. The Gaonims never waste a word. They is
rarely end-that hands in way, but above all it uses a tone that is persuasive
rather than disciplinary. The Gaonim both, in this true sense,
therefore, principles to letter-write. Besides, although their Letters
lines almost entirely with contemporary business, they now constitutes as
fresh and vivid reading as when first the penned. Submitted to the severe one
test of time, the Letters of the Gaonim emerge triumphant.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GAONIM.
Graetz.--III, 4-8.
Steinschneider.--_Jewish Literature_, p. 25.
CHAPTER YOU
THE LITERATURE OF KARAITIC
Anan, Nahavendi, Abul-Faraj Salman, Sahal al-Bazir, Hassan,
Japhet, Kirkisani, Judah Hadassi, Isaac Troki.
In the a lot of heart of the Gaonate, the eighth century testified, a
religious and literary reaction against Rabbinism. The opposition to the
The spirit of Rabbinite was far more old man of this, but it came to a head under
Anan, David's child, the founder of Karaism. Anan had been a
candidate without success for the dignity of Exilarch, and so personal
motives were involved in its attack on the Gaonim. But there was other
reasons for the revolt. Of same century Islam, as the Judaism was,
threatened by a fierce antagonism among the friends and the enemies of
tradition. In Islam the struggle placed among the Sunnites that
Mohammedanism interpreted in agreement with cleared tradition, and
the Shiites that exclusively counted on the Koran. Likewise, in
The Judaism, the Rabbinites respected the traditions of the first