haggadic
English
Adjective
haggadic (comparative more haggadic, superlative most haggadic)
- Alternative form of aggadic
- 1988, Elias Joseph Bickerman, The Jews in the Greek Age, page 190:
- Philosphers excepted, however, everyone liked to listen to mythoi — or haggadic exposition — because these tales provoked discussion.
- 2001, Max Kadushin, The Rabbinic Mind, page 132:
- In other words, when a biblical verse is given a haggadic interpretation, the element of indeterminacy is still present.
- 2009, Wolfgang Roth, Hebrew Gospel: Cracking the Code of Mark, page 103:
- 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).