Talmudic
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the Talmud.
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characterized by or making extremely fine distinctions; overly detailed or subtle; hairsplitting.
Other Word Forms
- post-Talmudic adjective
Example Sentences
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Through an artistic probing of form, perhaps reflective of his ancestors’ Talmudic dialectic, he questioned traditional pieties and challenged an existing order.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
But he realized that the life of a Talmudic scholar was not for him, and he started evening classes at Brooklyn College.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2024
Kohelet’s founder is the American Israeli Moshe Koppel, a computer scientist and Talmudic scholar who moved from New York to Israel in 1980 and now lives in the West Bank settlement of Efrat.
From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2023
The instructions for how to mud a baseball are Talmudic.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2022
The three Fischers, prototypes of Talmudic scholars, were always studying: Joan her textbooks; Regina her medical tomes; and Bobby the latest chess periodical.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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