Fish Eats Lion Eats Man: Saadia Gaon, Syriac Christianity, and the Resurrection of the Dead
Through an examination of their respective treatments of the resurrection of the dead, this article argues that the ninth-century, northern Mesopotamian Syriac authors John of Dara and Moses bar Kepha provide a key to understanding Saadia Gaon’s knowledge of Christianity and his overarching project...
| Published in: | The Jewish quarterly review |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penn Press
2016
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| In: |
The Jewish quarterly review
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| Further subjects: | B
Resurrection
B Saadia Gaon B Syriac Christianity B Abbasid Iraq B West Syrian B John of Dara B Kalām B Hellenization B Moses bar Kepha B Northern Mesopotamia B Judeo-Arabic |
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| Summary: | Through an examination of their respective treatments of the resurrection of the dead, this article argues that the ninth-century, northern Mesopotamian Syriac authors John of Dara and Moses bar Kepha provide a key to understanding Saadia Gaon’s knowledge of Christianity and his overarching project of “hellenizing” rabbinic Judaism under Abbasid Islam. |
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| ISSN: | 1553-0604 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Jewish quarterly review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2016.0036 |