rabbin

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That a conspicuous rabbin, Akiba, should have taken part in it, and have recognised in Simeon the Messiah, was an inconsistency on his part which redounds to his honour.

From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius

A rabbin published a catalogue of rabbinical writers, and called it Labia Dormientium, from Cantic. vii.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac

Mendelssohn, the son of a poor rabbin, in a village in Germany, received an education completely rabbinical, and its nature must be comprehended, or the term of education would be misunderstood.

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac

Was it some rabbin of the olden time?

From Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Gladden, Washington

"Nay, then, thou strict little rabbin, what shall we do?"

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth