Ben-Shammai Haggai - Saadia's Introduction to Daniel: Prophetic calculation of the End of Days vs. Astrological and Magical speculation

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PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press.
E-ISSN: 1565-5423 Print ISSN: 1565-1525.
Project MUSE - scholarly jouals online,© Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism, 2004.
39 pages.

Contents:
Background on Saadia's view of the relationship between Astrology and Prophecy.
Saadia's introduction to Daniel : the Judaeo-Arabic text.
Saadia's introduction to Daniel : English translation.
Subject Headings:
Sa?adia ben Joseph, 882-.
942. Kitab al-mamalik wa-al-malahim.
Bible. O.T. Daniel - Commentaries - Early works to 1800.
Bible and astrology.
End of the world.

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