Rabbinize

Quick meaning: Rabbinize is a verb meaning To interpret from the perspective of rabbinic teaching; to make consistent with rabbinic lore.

Meaning

To interpret from the perspective of rabbinic teaching; to make consistent with rabbinic lore.

Example Sentences

However, the rabbis attempted to rabbinize it by making it an incentive for obedience to the Torah: the Messiah would come, if all Israel would keep the Torah.

This issue is far from simple, given the later rabbinic tendency to 'rabbinize' earlier Jewish history, and particularly Jewish heroes from as far back as biblical times.

Joseph and Daniel would have figured largely as authorities, in the way in which they figure in later Christian oneirocritica. Instead the Rabbis take over the standard oneirocritica of their own day and rabbinize it .

Taking their cue from Vermes , a whole school of New Testament scholars have taken up the notion of 'rabbinization' , and have sought to recover the Chasidim as highly idiosyncratic individuals who had little or nothing in common with the Pharisee movement, despite later attempts to 'rabbinize' them .

Word Forms

• rabbinizes
• rabbinizing
• rabbinized
• rabbinise

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rabbinise, kosherize, religionize, reinterpret, regulize, rerationalize.

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