haggadic

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English

Adjective

haggadic (comparative more haggadic, superlative most haggadic)

  1. Alternative form of aggadic
    • 1988, Elias Joseph Bickerman, The Jews in the Greek Age, page 190:
      Philosophers 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).

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