Between Cross and Crescent: Jewish Civilization from Mohammed to Spinoza

The Philosophy of Saadia Gaon (1x6)

Air date: Dec 19, 2005

In writing a Jewish philosophy, Saadia Gaon sought to defend the integrity of the Jewish faith not only against his Muslim colleagues but against those rationalists who questioned its veracity and against the Karaites who undermined the rabbinic underpinnings of the Jewish tradition.