rabbinism

American  

[rab-uh-niz-uhm] / ˈræb əˌnɪz əm /

noun

1. the beliefs, practices, and precepts of the rabbis of the Talmudic period.

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rabbinism British  

/ ˈræbɪˌnɪzəm /

noun

1. the teachings and traditions of the rabbis of the Talmudic period

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Other Word Forms

• rabbinist noun
• rabbinistic adjective

Etymology

Origin of rabbinism

First recorded in 1645–55; rabbin + -ism

Example Sentences

That aspect of Judaism which was most conspicuous to the outsider in Paul's day was not the legalism of the scribes and the Palestinian synagogue, perpetually embalmed in the Talmud and orthodox rabbinism of to-day.

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It is not a small thing, that the apparently impenetrable phalanx of rabbinism at Jerusalem has thus actually been broken into; and two Jerusalem rabbis been incorporated into the restored Hebrew Christian Church on Mount Zion.

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One of the chief centres of Rabbinism was Ṣafed, still a sacred city of the Jews and largely inhabited by members of that faith.

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He is represented as almost overtaken by death; his loving scholars, as was usual in the days of rabbinism, cluster about him for some worthy word of parting advice.

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It was Christianity that preserved Jewish apocalyptic, when it was abandoned by Judaism as it sank into Rabbinism, and gave it a Christian character either by a forcible exegesis or by a systematic process of interpolation.

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