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According to a Haggadic legend, when God decided to create the world he said to Justice, 'Go and rule the earth which I am about to create.'
The Last of the Nasties? Lewontin, Richard C. 1996
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The Haggadic tradition connects numerous and various sayings with the name of Rabbi Jochanan.
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Besides embroidering the Bible text with Haggadic legends, Josephus is prone to place in the mouths of the characters rhetorical speeches in the Greek style, either expanding a verse or two in the Bible or composing them entirely.
Josephus Norman Bentwich 1927
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It is natural that the larger number of parallels between Philo and the rabbis is to be found in the Haggadic portions of Talmudic teaching, for the Haggadah represents the same spirit as underlies
Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich 1927
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Nor can it be doubted that he was acquainted with the Palestinian Midrash, both Halakic and Haggadic.
Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich 1927
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He treats, for example, the genealogies, the chronology, and the ethnology of Genesis as things of supreme value, and though he occasionally inserts Haggadic tradition, he misses the Haggadic spirit, which sought to draw new morals and new spiritual value from the narrative.
Josephus Norman Bentwich 1927
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_He-Asif_ for 1888, alive with emotion and patriotic ardor, as well as his Haggadic legends, must be put in the first rank.
The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Nahum Slouschz 1919
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[126] The Yalkut Shimoni is a sixteenth-century compilation of Haggadic
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918
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He treats, for example, the genealogies, the chronology, and the ethnology of Genesis as things of supreme value, and though he occasionally inserts Haggadic tradition, he misses the Haggadic spirit, which sought to draw new morals and new spiritual value from the narrative.
Josephus Bentwich, Norman 1914
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Besides embroidering the Bible text with Haggadic legends, Josephus is prone to place in the mouths of the characters rhetorical speeches in the Greek style, either expanding a verse or two in the Bible or composing them entirely.
Josephus Bentwich, Norman 1914
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