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Excerpt from The Karaite Literary Opponents of Saadiah Gaon In the Kitdb al-'anwdr, of which I possess several excerpts in manuscript besides those printed, there are a few chapters exclusively devoted to the refutation of Saadiah, e. G. Section xi, chap. 29, on forbidden degrees of relationship, and section xii, chaps. 15 - 16, on the use of the fat tail (111511) 1. Again, in other passages Saadiah is con troverted incidentally (often anonymously), or he is the chief Object of controversy: e. G. Section ii, chap. 13, on Saadiah's theory about the age of the permanent calendar1; ibid., chaps. 14-15 (partly edited in Z. III, on the divinity and the necessity of the oral law; section xi, chap. 30 (edited in the kaufmann-gedenkbuch, p. 182; reprint, p. Xiv), on the prohibition to marry a niece; section xii, chap. 7, on the wrenching off of a fowl's head ibid., chap. 10, on the eating of dead fish (saadiah's name is not mentioned here, cf. Z. F. H. B., IV, ibid., chaps. 20-1 (edited loc. Cit., p. 184 reprint, p. Xvi) on the use of an embryo, &c. Similarly, according to Harkavy, Saadiah and his polemical work against 'anan are meant in the following passage of the Kitdb dl-'afnwdr, the section and chapter of which cannot be ascertained for the present'1: in 511151151111: 0m in 151: 1111 113113155 511m no fr: nyr 1511, i. E. A Rabbanite has refuted the view that the prayers are to consist only of psalms, 810. As a matter of fact, this was a prescription of 'andn, who endeavoured by this means to annul the hitherto prevalent order of prayer, because the latter went back upon, tradition 5. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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