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Aggadah (Hebrew: אַגָּדָה, romanized: Aggāḏā, or הַגָּדָה Haggāḏā; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אֲגַדְתָּא, romanized: Aggāḏṯā; 'tales', 'fairytale', 'lore') is the non-legalistic exegesis which appears in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly the Talmud and Midrash. In general, Aggadah ...
Sefer HaAggadah (The Book of Legends) is a compilation of Aggadot (singular Aggadah; Aramaic אַגָּדָה: "tales, lore") that was compiled and edited by Hayim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua Hana Rawnitzki starting from 1903. Most of the sources included in Sefer HaAggadah come from the period of the Tannaim and the Amoraim.
The oldest surviving complete manuscript of the Haggadah dates to the 10th century. It is part of a prayer book compiled by Saadia Gaon. It is now believed that the Haggadah first became produced as an independent book in codex form around 1000 CE. [15] Maimonides (1135–1204) included the Haggadah in his code of Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah ...
The Sarajevo Haggadah is an illuminated manuscript that contains the illustrated traditional text of the Passover Haggadah which accompanies the Passover Seder.It belongs to a group of Spanish-Provençal Sephardic Haggadahs, originating "somewhere in northern Spain", [1] most likely the city of Barcelona, around 1350, and is one of the oldest of its kind in the world.
[1] Scenes from the Book of Exodus. The Golden Haggadah measures 24.7×19.5 cm, is made of vellum, and consists of 101 leaves. It is a Hebrew text written in square Sephardi script. There are fourteen full-page miniatures, each consisting of four scenes on a gold ground. It has a seventeenth-century Italian binding of dark brown sheepskin.
Midrash Shmuel, on the first two Books of Kings (I, II Samuel). Midrash Tehillim, on the Psalms. Midrash Mishlé, a commentary on the book of Proverbs. Yalkut Shimoni. A collection of midrash on the entire Hebrew Scriptures containing both halakhic and aggadic midrash. It was compiled by Shimon ha-Darshan in the 13th century CE and is collected ...
The midrash contains aggadic interpretations and homilies on the books of Samuel, each homily being prefaced and introduced by a verse taken from some other book of the Bible. It resembles most of the other aggadic midrashim in diction and in style; in fact, it is a collection of teachings found in such midrashim and referring to the books of ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... Han is the Chinese word for Chinese and kitab means book in Arabic. [1] [2] ... After studying abroad in the Islamic world for ...