Talmudist

Freudenstein was chief chemist of the Jewish food giant Rokeach for 50 years and also an ardent talmudist. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The crew is released but the bootyship is retained, a thief is always a thief especially a talmudist one. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And early in the nineteenth century, the poet and philosopher Coleridge, who was not insensitive to the charm of some rabbinical legends and even thought of publishing a collection of them, found himself unable to shake off his chronic ambivalence and speaks contemptuously at one moment of the "puerilities and anilities, some impossible, mostly incredible, and all so silly and sensual, as befits a dreaming talmudist." ❋ Unknown (1978)

During the Puritan regime in England, when invective and abuse served the amenities of doctrinal discussion, one of the common insults to be hurled at an opponent was the charge that he was a talmudist: at best an impractical dreamer; at worst a hopeless fool. ❋ Unknown (1978)

Binyamin Ze’ev quotes several sages (Samuel of Evreux, first half of thirteenth century, talmudist and tosafist of Normandy; Elijah ben Judah of Paris, first half of the twelfth century, French talmudist, commentator, and halakhist; and Meshullam ben Nathan of Melun, twelfth century, talmudist in northern France) who were in favor of denying all the privileges of the community to the perpetrator who refused to give his wife a divorce. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ma'ase Nissim ” is a commentary on the homiletic book of the medieval talmudist, Nissim of Gerondi. ❋ Thielke, Peter (2007)

'Because a feller is a talmudist already, Mr. Brady,' I says, 'that don't say he ain't blowing in his money on the horse races yet.'" ❋ Montague Glass (1905)