Saadia Gaon: Continuity and Change among the Jews of Islamic Lands

[RG #61] Saadia Gaon: Continuity and Change among the Jews of Islamic Lands

February - July 1995

Organizer:

Menahem Ben Sasson (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Robert Brody (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

1994-1995 Research Groups

Members

Haggai Ben-Shammai

FELLOW

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Haggai is a professor in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests are: Judeo-Arabic Bible exgesis; Koran exgesis; Judeo-Arabic and Islamic philosophy and theology.

Robert Brody

FELLOW

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Bruno Chiesa

FELLOW

University of Torino

Bruno is a professor in the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Torino. His research interests are the history of the biblical text and the development of Jewish thought and exegesis in the early Middle Ages with particular concern for the Karaite branch of Judaism.

Rina Drory

FELLOW

Tel Aviv University

Tzvi Langermann

FELLOW

Bar-Ilan University

Tzvi is a professor in the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University. His research interests are: the histories of science, philosophy and religion.