The Midrash and I. (personal narrative)

Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought | June 22, 1993| | Copyright

Among the many (too many!) regrets that trouble me nowadays is remorse over not having followed my instincts and studied the Midrash harder than I have. After all, the Bible is always in my mind, and the Midrash begins as commentaries on individual verses of the Bible and then ranges very far indeed. The midrashim are literary as well as religious masterpieces. so how could I, who love the Bible, am essentially a literary animal, and one who has always been fascinated by speculation about faith, not have sought out the Midrash after having been introduced to it by a scholar ...

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