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This was the approach of the Vilna Ga'on ( 1720-97 ) . Hitherto , Saadya Gaon 's translation was the oldest extant Judaeo-Arabic Bible translation . Professor Blau goes on to explain that the fragment is written in a rather rare phonetic spelling which was used only during the first three Islamic centuries and which then completely disappeared after Saadya Gaon 's version had become the standard Bible translation of that part of mediaeval Jewry that spoke Arabic . " Her translation into Hungarian of the Book of Beliefs and Opinions by Saadya Gaon will soon be published . Topics will include the early development of rationalist theology in Judaism ( beginning with Jewish adaptation of the Muslim Kalam ) , Saadya Gaon ( d. 942 in Baghdad ) , the " founder " of Jewish philosophy in the Islamic world , and his oeuvre , the Karaite Kalam , comparison between Saadya 's eschatology and that of the tenth-century Karaite thinker , al-Qirqisani , and later Islamic philosophical trends among the Jews . Reb Israel Salanter , who once examined him , is supposed to have disclosed that he would grow up to be a gaon b'yisroel [ renowned Torah scholar ] .