SABOREI. — "Reasoners" or "interpreters," classes of scholars whose activity lasted only a few decades and aimed to resolve difficulties encountered in the Talmudic text (v. TALMÒD).
BIBL.: H. L. Strack, Einleitung in Talmud, 5th ed., Munich 1921, p. 149; J. Krengel, in Jud. Lexikon, V, cols. 27 ff. Eugenio Zolli