Where Have the Idolators Gone?
We've all met them. We just don't know the right word.
Rabbi Saadia Gaon completed the first systematic dogma of Judaism, The Book of Beliefs and Opinions (Emunot v’De’ot) in the year 933, as long after the Giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai as we today live after the birth of Plato. This means that long before Judaism possessed any systematic theology that a philosopher could appreciate, any dogma spun out…
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