Emunoth Ve-Deoth
The Book of Beliefs and Opinions (completed 933 CE) is a text written by Saadia Gaon which is the first systematic presentation and philosophic foundation of the dogmas of Judaism.
The work was originally written in Arabic as Kitāb ul-ʾamānāt wal-iʿtiqādāt ( كتاب الأمانات والإعتقادات; Arabic: "Book of the Articles of Faith and Doctrines of Dogma"), but is better known in the Hebrew translation of Judah ibn Tibbon (1186) as Emunot ve-Deot (אמונות ודעות; Hebrew: "Beliefs and Opinions"). An unabridged translation into English by Samuel Rosenblatt was published in 1989.
The work is prefaced by an introduction and has ten chapters; it was completed in 933. It is thought that Saadia closely followed the rules of the Mutazilites - the rationalistic dogmatists of Islam - in the structure of the work, as well as, in part, basing his thesis and arguments on their works.
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