rabbinize

Verb

rabbinize (third-person singular simple present rabbinizes, present participle rabbinizing, simple past and past participle rabbinized)

1. To interpret from the perspective of rabbinic teaching; to make consistent with rabbinic lore.
   • This issue is far from simple, given the later rabbinic tendency to 'rabbinize' earlier Jewish history, and particularly Jewish heroes from as far back as biblical times.1987, Shemuel Safrai, The Literature of the Sages
   • Joseph and Daniel would have figured largely as authorities, in the way in which they figure in later Christian oneirocritica. Instead the Rabbis take over the standard oneirocritica of their own day and rabbinize it .1995, The Journal of Jewish Studies - Volume 46, page 246