Capitolo 42
Him he added many hymns to the liturgy. In this Saadiah
poetic series is very various. Sometimes its style is as pure and simple
as the most classical poems in the Spanish school. To the other durations, his
verses have the whole complexity, hardness and the artfulness of Kalir.
Its dominion of the Jew is perhaps seen better in his "Book of the they Exiled"
(Have-Galui_ of _Sefer), it compiled in Jewish Biblical, separated in verses,
and provided that with accents. As it points out the title, this book was written
during the exile of Saadiah from Sura.
The version of Arab of Saadiah of the Sacred writings won such favor that was
publicly reads in the synagogues. Of old man the Targum or version of Aramaic,
you/he/she had been read together in public adoration with the original Hebrew. Now,
however, the Arab they started to replace the Targum. The version of Saadiah well
deserved his/her honor.
Saadiah got the nest of a hornet on his/her head from his/her renewed attacks
Karaism, contained in his/her Genesis commentary. But the call to Sura
the thoughts of Saadiah turned in another direction. He found the famous one
the university in decadence. The Exilarchs, the nominal heads of the whole one of the
Babylonian Hebrews, were often unworthy of their position, and it were not
you crave before Saadiah entered conflict with the Exilarch. The struggle
ended in the exile of the Gaon by Sura. During his/her years of proclamation, him
produced his/her greatest jobs. He systematized a prayer-book, he/she wrote Talmudical
compositions, rules compiled for the calendar examined the jobs of Massoretic
of various authors, and, indeed it produced an enormous order of books, all of
them influential and meritorious. But its more memorable writings were
his "Commentary on the Book of the Creation" (_Sefer Yetsirah_) and his
masterpiece, "Faith and the Philosophy" (you-Deoth_ of _Emunoth).
This essay, ended of year 934, it was the first systematic
you try to bring religion revealed in the harmony with Greek philosophy.
Saadiah was so the precursor, not only of Maimonides but also of the