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Aggadah
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English
Alternative forms
en Haggadah Haggada
Etymology
From en arc אַגָּדְתָא tale, lore ʾaggāḏ'ṯā, from en he הֲגָדָה haggāḏā.
Pronunciation
en /əˈɡɑːdə/ UK
Noun
s * Aggadot Aggadoth
A homiletic and non-legalistic exegetical text in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash. A parable that demonstrates a point of the Law in the Talmud. from 17th c.
en 1725 Edward Chandler; Anthony Collins A defence of Christianity from the prophecies of the Old Testament: wherein are considered all the objections against this kind of proof : advanced in a late discourse of the grounds and reasons of the Christian religion http://books.google.com/books?id=holPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA344 Of the Allegorick or other Methods of citing Scripture, used by the Writers of the New Testament. James Knapton London 344 They termed them also..Agada in the Chaldee, or..Hagada in the Hebrew form, which are rendered in Philo, by the Greek ...
en Haggadah the text recited at Seder.
en 1881 Americus Featherman Social history of the races of mankind http://books.google.com/books?id=K2ETAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA158 Orthodox Jews of the East and Talmud Jews of Poland Trübner & Co. London 5 158 The story of the delivery of Israel from Egyptian bondage is read in Hebrew by the chief of the house from a book called the agada, which is interwoven with hymns of praise and thanksgiving, and it also contains some legendary chapters entirely figurative in their sense and composition.
Related terms
en aggadic, en Aggadic
Translations
parable that demonstrates a point of the Law in the Talmud
Polish: pl hagada f
Portuguese: pt agadá f
Anagrams
en aaadggh Haggada