Workshop: Saadya Gaon in the Qaraite literature of the 10th–11th centuries
09.11.2023 09:00 Uhr – 16:30 Uhr
Saadya Gaon’s anti-Qaraite polemic was fundamental for the development of Qaraite literature. In their turn, Qaraites quoted Saadya and discussed his views so much that their treatises can now be used to reconstruct Saadya’s lost works. This workshop explores anew the inextricable connection between Saadya and the Qaraites by looking at a wide range of previously little studied Qaraite sources from the 10th-11th centuries.
Venue
Seidlvilla
Nikolaiplatz 1B
80802 München
Programme
9:00 am – 10:00 am
Rabbi Isaac Nappaḥa, founder of the Jewish calendar: how a Rabbanite text came to be owned by Qaraites
Sacha Stern (University College London)
- 10:00 am – 10:30 am Coffee break
10:30 am – 11:30 am
References to Saadya Gaon in Yaʿqūb al-Qirqisānī’s Kitāb al-Anwār wa-l-Marāqib
Maxim Roozen (Freie Universität Berlin)
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
A Qaraite refutation of Kitāb al-Tamyīz by Saadya Gaon and its attribution to Ḥasan Ben Mashiaḥ
Nadia Vidro (University College London)
- 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
References to Saadya Gaon in the works of Sahl ben Maṣliaḥ
Friederike Schmidt and Ronny Vollandt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)
- 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Coffee break
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Poznański's Karaite Literary Opponents of Saadiah Gaon 115 years on: the cases of Yeshuʿah ben Yehudah, Šlomo ben David ha-Naśi, and Yefet al-Burqumānī
Gregor Schwarb (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich)