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Aggadah

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Aggadah [əgəˈda]
n pl Aggadoth [-ˈdɔːt -ˈdəʊt] Judaism
1. (Non-Christian Religions / Judaism)
a.  a homiletic passage of the Talmud
b.  collectively, the homiletic part of traditional Jewish literature, as contrasted with Halacha, consisting of elaborations on the biblical narratives or tales from the lives of the ancient Rabbis
2. (Non-Christian Religions / Judaism) any traditional homiletic interpretation of scripture Also called Aggadatah [əˈgadəta] Haggadah
[from Hebrew]

Haggada, Haggadah, Aggada, Aggadah
1. the explanatory matter in rabbinic and Talmudic literature, interpreting or illustrating the Scriptures.
2. a book in which is printed the liturgy for the Seder service. — haggadic, haggadical, adj.
See also: Judaism


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Among her topics are reception theory and literary afterlives, literary criticism and the interrelationships of texts, naming the animals, Halakhah and Aggadah as the two faces of midrash, postmodern midrash, where retelling and translation intersect, translation as cure, and the language of filter.
Hair-covering as quintessential religious act The worlds of Jewish law and legal argument and also narrative aggadah are partnered by a rich social performance of Jewish ritual.
His scholarship was wide-ranging, but focused primarily on Jewish writings of the first three centuries of the Common Era, particularly the genre known as aggadah, the non-legal writings of the first generations of Jewish sages.
 
 
 
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