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TALMUDIC LITERATURE

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Meaning:

(Judaism) ancient rabbinical writings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Talmudic literature" is a kind of...):

religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)

Domain category:

Judaism (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Talmudic literature"):

Hagada; Haggada; Haggadah (Talmudic literature that does not deal with law but is still part of Jewish tradition)

Halacha; Halaka; Halakah (Talmudic literature that deals with law and with the interpretation of the laws on the Hebrew Scriptures)

Instance hyponyms:

Talmud (the collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition (the Mishna and the Gemara) that constitute the basis of religious authority in Orthodox Judaism)

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