haggadic

comparative more haggadic · superlative most haggadic

1. alternativeAlternative form of aggadic.

   In other words, when a biblical verse is given a haggadic interpretation, the element of indeterminacy is still present.

   2001, Max Kadushin, The Rabbinic Mind, page 132

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   Philosophers excepted, however, everyone liked to listen to mythoi—or haggadic exposition—because these tales provoked discussion.

   1988, Elias Joseph Bickerman, The Jews in the Greek Age, page 190

   Because haggadic activity is not restricted and regulated as halakic interpretation, "the haggadic method required only that there be a connection between a Biblical text and a haggadic idea" (120).

   2009, Wolfgang Roth, Hebrew Gospel: Cracking the Code of Mark, page 103

comparative more Haggadic · superlative most Haggadic

1. alternativeAlternative form of aggadic.

   This idea does not mean that all Jewish Haggadic elements are absent from Christian literature.

   1977, Albertus Frederik Johannes Klijn, Seth: In Jewish, Christian and Gnostic Literature, page 119

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   Another way to make this point is to say that while the disaster of the Exodus from Egypt could be turned by the Jews into Haggadic truth, that of the Holocaust cannot.

   2007, Liora Gubkin, You Shall Tell Your Children

   As in Haggadic method of interpretation, Jesus used these aesthetic elements such as characters, narrative forms and familiar scenes in order to capture and maintain the attention of his hearers.

   2011, John Joshva Raja, Searching God in the Media Market