Capitolo 41
scientific tendencies of his/her day. He created, in the first place, a
Jewish philosophy that is to say him applied to the Jewish theology the
philosophical methods of the Arabs. Again, although he vigorously opposed
Karaism, he adopted his/her love of the philology, and from his/her translation of the
Bible in the Arab helped in before an acoustic receiver that understands of the
Sacred writings.
To the age of thirty-six Saadiahs an extraordinary honor received; he was
summoned to Sura to fill the place of Gaon. This election of a foreigner
how head of the school Babylonian test, before, Babylon had lost
his/her old supremacy, and, that Saadiahs you/he/she had already won in according to place,
world fame. He/she anchors the great job on which now its reputation remains
you/he/she was not written then. The notoriety of Saadiah was due to his succeeded
championship of Rabbinism against the Karaites. His/her determination, his
to learn, its originality was discernible entirely in its first essays
against Anan and his/her followers. The Rabbinites first had opposed
Karaism in a war of guerilla. Saadiah entered the open one, and he/she met and
won the enemy in pitchy battles. But he did more than defeats the
invader, he strengthened the defenses of house. The jobs of polemical of Saadiah
always has a positive as a negative value. He desired to try
Karaism offends, but he also tried to show that Rabbinism was corrected.
As a champion of Rabbinism, then Saadiah had called to Sura. But he had
another required to distinction. The Karaites founded their position upon the
Bible. Saadiah resolved that the appeal to the Bible should not be
tightened to studious. He translated the Sacred writings in the Arab, and
assistant notes. The qualifications of Saadiah for the assignment were its knowledge of
Jewish, his/her critical and excellent sense and his/her attitude illuminated verse
the Midrash. As to the first qualification, it is said, that to the age
of eleven he had started a dictionary that rhymes Israelite for the use of poets.