Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the writers or compilers of the Talmud.
  • noun One who accepts the doctrines and teachings of the Talmud.
  • noun One who is versed in the Talmud and in literature relating to it.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One versed in the Talmud; one who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One versed in the Talmud.
  • noun One who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.

Etymologies

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Talmud +‎ -ist. Compare French talmudiste.

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Examples

  • Here is what Maimonides, the great philosopher, physician, and Talmudist, had to say in his famous book, The Guide of the Perplexed, written in 1160:

    Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power Miriam Pollack 2011

  • Here is what Maimonides, the great philosopher, physician, and Talmudist, had to say in his famous book, The Guide of the Perplexed, written in 1160:

    Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power Miriam Pollack 2011

  • The Talmudist in your veins, the prophet in your eyes, the poet in your lungs.

    Bradley Burston: American Jews Without Israel, Israel Without U.S. Jews 2010

  • In Kalich's Yiddish film Ost und West (1923) [East and West, also known as Mizrech un Mayrev], Picon is an American girl who, when not disguised as a Hasidic boy, mistakenly marries a Talmudist, played by Kalich, eventually happily secularized.

    Jewish Women in Comedy - Molly Picon 2010

  • In Jacob Kalich's film Ost und West (1923), Molly Picon played an American girl who, when not disguised as a hasidic boy, mistakenly marries a Talmudist, played by Kalich, eventually happily secularized.

    Yiddish Film in the United States. 2009

  • "The professor [Snyder] made an innocent statement and he quoted the Talmud correctly," says Rabbi Aaron Soloveichik, a noted Talmudist and dean of Brisk Rabbinical College in Chicago.

    Sexual or Textual Harassment? 2008

  • "If we can dismiss as 'unhistorical' most of the Gospels 'Jesus of Christianity, what can we of faithful Israel save of our rabbi, Moses, for Judaism?" asks Rabbi Jacob Neusner, a distinguished Talmudist at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

    Rethinking The Resurrection 2008

  • And ask a Talmudist what ails the modesty of his marginal

    Areopagitica 2007

  • And ask a Talmudist what ails the modesty of his marginal

    Areopagitica 2007

  • The Talmudist would say, he came to the bed of the dead: which indeed is the same, 2

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

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