English Explanatory Dictionary

Stammaim

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of the rabbis who composed the anonymous statements and arguments in the Talmud, some of whom may have worked during the period of the Amoraim, but who mostly made their contributions later.

Word forms

Stammaim

Etymology

A modern coinage on the pattern of Amoraim, Tannaim, etc, from Hebrew סְתָם (stam, literally “plain”), used to describe the anonymous commentary in the Talmud.

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