Haggadistn.
/həˈɡɑːdɪst/, /həˈɡadɪst/, U.S. /həˈɡɑdəst/ Judaism.
A writer of Haggadah (Haggadah n. 1); an expert in or teacher of Haggadah.
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1852 Jewish Chron. 30 Apr. 236/2 This verifies the words of the Hagadist, that each plague God sent over Egypt was followed by other disasters.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 516 A Hagadist, or one who dwelt on allegory, legend and historical story more than on the legal precedents of the Halacha.
1891 tr. H. Didon Jesus Christ I. 200 Jesus did not give the impression of a scribe, a doctor, or a Haggadist..but of a prophet.
2013 Hebrew Stud. 54 109 Moses Maimonides considered the Shiur Qomah to be the fraudulent invention of Byzantine haggadists, and he states the work should be burned.
Derivatives
Haggaˈdistic adj. of, relating to, or characteristic of a Haggadist or Haggadists.
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1856 J. W. Etheridge Jerusalem & Tiberias 428 The general tone of Jewish preaching in the Middle Ages was not so hagadistic as it had been in the East.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 288 That Hagadistic school of Jewish exegesis.
2002 A. J. Burke Raising of Lazarus & Passion of Jesus in John 11 & 12 (Ph.D. diss., Fordham Univ., N.Y.) vi. 268 John's unique haggadistic interpretations of the various eschatological themes that he has woven into a precise and progressive pattern.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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