Talmudic
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the Talmud.
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characterized by or making extremely fine distinctions; overly detailed or subtle; hairsplitting.
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Through an artistic probing of form, perhaps reflective of his ancestors’ Talmudic dialectic, he questioned traditional pieties and challenged an existing order.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026
The mystery of Satoshi’s identity has long obsessed crypto experts, who analyze every record of his communications with the reverence of Talmudic scholars.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2024
Kohelet’s founder is the American Israeli Moshe Koppel, a computer scientist and Talmudic scholar who moved from New York to Israel in 1980 and now lives in the West Bank settlement of Efrat.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 24, 2023
The instructions for how to mud a baseball are Talmudic.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2022
I discovered that my father’s method of teaching me Talmud and his patient insistence that I learn Talmudic grammar—I had painfully memorized an Aramaic grammar book—was now standing me in good stead.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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