Talmudist

noun

Tal·​mud·​ist ˈtäl-ˌmu̇-dist How to pronounce Talmudist (audio)
ˈtal-,
-mə- How to pronounce Talmudist (audio)
: a specialist in Talmudic studies

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On the deepest level, Schulman felt himself to be defiled and ridiculed by his participation in the whole process, the butt of a joke perpetrated by the too-clever Talmudists seeking to one-up each other with preposterous possibilities, having their fun at Schulman’s expense. — Tova Reich, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024 The best episodes dare him to inhabit the two at once, heretic and Talmudist. — Wesley Morris Ron Butler Emma Kehlbeck Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024 His humor is both hilarious and dark, issuing from an evolved persona that had elements of the street-savvy hipster, academic and Talmudist. — Phillip Lopate, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020 These two secular Talmudists are hunched over the page, sharing a pencil and arguing about matters of punctuation, syntax, rhythm, and clarity. — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 June 2023

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First Known Use

1569, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of Talmudist was in 1569

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