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...

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Main Author: Moss, Yonatan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Penn Press 2016
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2016, Volume: 106, Issue: 4, Pages: 494-520
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.
ISSN:1553-0604
Contains:Enthalten in: The Jewish quarterly review
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2016.0036