SABOREI. – “Reasoners” or “interpreters,” a class of scholars whose activity lasted only a few decades and aimed to resolve the difficulties encountered in the Talmudic text (v. TALMCD).
BIBL.: H. L. Strack, Einleitung in Talmud, 5th ed., Munich 1921, p. 149; J. Krengel, in Jüd. Lexikon, V, col. 27 ff. Eugenio Zolli