Rabbi Saadia Gaon (lived 882-942) was one of the most influential personalities to exist in the history of Jewish culture. He added profound insight and skill to every field of knowledge which he came in contact with, these being mainly: halachic treatise, commentaries on scripture, language, religious thought, and poetry. He was able to simultaneously pour his insightful, new wisdom into a subject while maintaining age-old Jewish religion and knowledge as well. He maintained the wisdom of the Mishnaic and Talmudic scholars before him while finding a suitable balance with the times that he lived in. He did this by translating scriptures into the accepted Judeo-Arabic language of his day, and aligning his translations with the accepted religious and scientific knowledge of his time period..