Classical vs Aggadah - What's the difference?
classical | aggadah |
Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.
* Arbuthnot
Of or pertaining to established principles in a discipline.
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(music) Describing European music and musicians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
(informal, music) Describing serious music (rather than pop, jazz, blues etc), especially when played using instruments of the orchestra.
Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks and Romans, especially to Greek or Roman authors of the highest rank, or of the period when their best literature was produced; of or pertaining to places inhabited by the ancient Greeks and Romans, or rendered famous by their deeds.
* Macaulay
Conforming to the best authority in literature and art; chaste; pure; refined; as, a classical style.
* Macaulay
(physics) Pertaining to models of physical laws that do not take quantum or relativistic effects into account; Newtonian or Maxwellian.
A homiletic and non-legalistic exegetical texts in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash. A parable that demonstrates a point of the Law in the Talmud.
* {{quote-book, year= 1725
, year_published=
, author= Edward Chandler, Anthony Collins
, by=
, title= A defence of Christianity from the prophecies of the Old Testament: wherein are considered all the objections against this kind of proof : advanced in a late discourse of the grounds and reasons of the Christian religion
, url= http://books.google.com/books?id=holPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA344
, original=
, chapter= Of the Allegorick or other Methods of citing Scripture, used by the Writers of the New Testament.
, isbn=
, edition=
, publisher= James Knapton
, location= London
, editor=
, volume=
, page= 344
, passage= They termed them also..Agada''''' in the ''Chaldee'', or..'''''Hagada'' in the ''Hebrew'' form, which are rendered in Philo, by the ''Greek ...
}}
(obsolete) Text which is recited at during the first and second nights of Passover, focused on the freeing of Israel from Egyptian bondage as described in the Book of Exodus. (See also the more modern Haggadah)
* {{quote-book, year= 1881
, year_published=
, author= Americus Featherman
, by=
, title= Social history of the races of mankind
, url= http://books.google.com/books?id=K2ETAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA158
, original=
, chapter= Orthodox Jews of the East and Talmud Jews of Poland
, isbn=
, edition=
, publisher= Trübner & Co.
, location= London
, editor=
, volume= 5
, page= 158
, passage= The story of the delivery of Israel from Egyptian bondage is read in Hebrew by the chief of the house from a book called the agada , which is interwoven with hymns of praise and thanksgiving, and it also contains some legendary chapters entirely figurative in their sense and composition.
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As an adjective classical
is of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.As a noun aggadah is
a homiletic and non-legalistic exegetical texts in the classical rabbinic literature of judaism, particularly as recorded in the talmud and midrash a parable that demonstrates a point of the law in the talmud.classical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Mr. Greaves may justly be reckoned a classical author on this subject.
- Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
- He [Atterbury] directed the classical studies of the undergraduates of his college.
- Classical , provincial, and national synods.