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TALMUDIC LITERATURE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Judaism) ancient rabbinical writings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Talmudic literature" is a kind of...):
religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)
Domain category:
Judaism (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Talmudic literature"):
Hagada; Haggada; Haggadah (Talmudic literature that does not deal with law but is still part of Jewish tradition)
Halacha; Halaka; Halakah (Talmudic literature that deals with law and with the interpretation of the laws on the Hebrew Scriptures)
Instance hyponyms:
Talmud (the collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition (the Mishna and the Gemara) that constitute the basis of religious authority in Orthodox Judaism)
