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Aggadah (Hebrew: אַגָּדָה, romanized: Aggāḏā, or הַגָּדָה Haggāḏā;
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אֲגַדְתָּא, romanized: Aggāḏṯā; 'tales', 'fairytale', 'lore')...
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consist of
different expositions of the same
Biblical verse, by
different aggadists,
strung together in
various ways, but
always arranged so that the last...
- בר אבא) was a
Jewish amora of the 5th generation, one of the
foremost aggadists of his time. He was a
pupil of Ḥuna bar Abin, from whom he
transmits halakhic...
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Moshe haDarshan (circa
early 11th century) (Hebrew: משה הדרשן, trans. "Moses the preacher") was
chief of the
yeshiva of Narbonne, and
perhaps the founder...
- the Jordan], even on a semiholiday". He was one of the most
prolific aggadists.
Midrash Tehillim has, erroneously, been
ascribed to him.
Sherira Gaon...
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great deal of
attention to the context, a
point usually neglected by
Aggadists. His
explanations are
short and terse.
While criticizing at
times some...
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Aranka ****er, poet and scholar,
daughter of
Bernat ****er, a
renowned '
Aggadist,
Islamic scholar and folklorist.
Peter Nemenyi was born in Berlin, to which...
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ethical sayings recorded of him show
similar ability. The
greatest aggadist among Babylonian Amoraim, he is the only one of them
whose aggadic utterances...
- end with Gamaliel's
expressed desire to hear the
opinion of the
eminent aggadist Eleazar of Modi'im. The
lament over his
favorite pupil,
Samuel haKatan...
- that
parts of the old
collections had been
preserved among the
later aggadists. Then, when a
midrash to the
Psalms was
undertaken together with the other...
