Haggadic

English

Adjective

Haggadic (comparative more Haggadic, superlative most Haggadic)

1. Alternative form of aggadic
   • 1977, Albertus Frederik Johannes Klijn, Seth: In Jewish, Christian and Gnostic Literature, page 119:

     This idea does not mean that all Jewish Haggadic elements are absent from Christian literature.

   • 2007, Liora Gubkin, You Shall Tell Your Children:

     Another way to make this point is to say that while the disaster of the Exodus from Egypt could be turned by the Jews into Haggadic truth, that of the Holocaust cannot.

   • 2011, John Joshva Raja, Searching God in the Media Market:

     As in Haggadic method of interpretation, Jesus used these aesthetic elements such as characters, narrative forms and familiar scenes in order to capture and maintain the attention of his hearers.