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Midrash
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Midrash (Heb., ‘investigation/study [sc. of Scripture]’). The term is commonly applied to the whole tradition of Jewish biblical exegesis, but it primarily denotes rabbinic interpretation of the Bible as it flourished in Palestine and, to a lesser extent, in Babylonia, from the 2nd to the 8th cent. AD. In all the midrashic texts, Scripture is seen as the primary source of all wisdom and truth; it originated in the mind of God and so is inerrant and totally coherent. The aims of the expositor are to explain apparent errors, harmonize contradictions, and draw out the teaching of the Law and apply it to Jewish life. To this end he may resort to extreme techniques of text-manipulation. Despite the chronological problem, the rabbinic Midrashim have been used to elucidate NT exegesis of the OT, and they shed light on the works of
Origen and St
Jerome.
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Midrash through Christian eyes.(The Burning Word: A Christian Encounter With Jewish Midrash)(Book review)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 5/26/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...WORD: A CHRISTIAN ENCOUNTER WITH JEWISH MIDRASH By Judith M. Kunst Paraclete Press, 166 pages, $15.95 The Jewish practice of Midrash encourages people to question and to wonder...Irit--to risk all by looking back? Midrash has come up with multiple theories, the...
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The Midrash and I. (personal narrative)
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought; 6/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...in my mind, and the Midrash begins as commentaries...very far indeed. The midrashim are literary as well...special collections of midrashim .... But busyness...time to consult the Midrash. I was no busier than...of "Rabbinism" with midrashim that interpret specific...
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Haggadic Midrash and the hermeneutics of reveal-ment.
Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...addresses the longstanding notion that Jewish Midrash is exegesis. Hermeneutical methods that...designed to address Halakhic (legal) Midrash have traditionally been applied to texts of Haggadic (story) Midrash, with less than satisfactory results...
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Current Trends in the Study of Midrash.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin; 12/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...in the Second Temple Period," by Paul Mandel; "Resistance to Midrash? Midrash and Halakhah in the Halakhic Midrashim," by Azzan Yadin; "Rewritten Bible and Rabbinic Midrash as Commentary," by Steven D. Fraade; "Reflections on the Practice...
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Judaism and the Interpretation of Scripture: Introduction to the Rabbinic Midrash
Magazine article from: Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Introduction to the Rabbinic Midrash. By Jacob Neusner. Peabody...An Overview of the Rabbinic Midrash-Compilations." Neusner...philosophical discourse. Propositional Midrashim are not organized around the...there is the mode of Rabbinic Midrash exegesis that is repetitive...
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John T. Townsend. Midrash Tanhuma. Volume III. Numbers and Deuteronomy.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Jewish Quarterly Review; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; JOHN T. TOWNSEND. Midrash Tanhuma. Volume III. Numbers and Deuteronomy...Townsend's annotated translation of the Midrash Tanhuma, which tops off his long...complete English translation of a Tanhuma midrash. The object of his translation is the...
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Midrash, Bible, and women's voices
Magazine article from: Judaism; 10/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...to moral teaching as Auerbach describes that midrash was born. Some traditional midrashim that comment on Bible stories with these narratives...you not only study the aggadah but write some midrash yourself-what then? What I Want Midrash To...
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Midrash, bible, and women's voices.
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought; 9/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...to moral teaching as Auerbach describes that midrash was born. Some traditional midrashim that comment on Bible stories with these narratives...you not only study the aggadah but write some midrash yourself - what then? What I Want Midrash To...
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Midrash and the letter of Barnabas.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Biblical Theology Bulletin; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...tradition of biblical interpretation known as midrash. In this paper the conclusions of such...it becomes more plausible to identify midrash in the letter of Barnabas...which numerous scholars have identified as midrash. The identification of midrash in the...
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Midrash Tanhuma: Volume 3, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Midrash Tanhuma: Volume 3, Numbers and Deuteronomy...translation was set by the publication of Midrash Rabba (10 vols.; London: Soncino Press...chunk of Townsend's Tanhuma overlaps with Midrash Rabba, and his work at some points surpasses...
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Midrash
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...portions of Scripture, and Midrash haggada, dealing with biblical...Important among them are the Midrash Rabbah, a collection of commentaries...Ecclesiastes), and the Pesikta Midrashim, concerning the festivals...Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash (1931, repr. 1969); L...
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midrash
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
midrash Early Jewish commentary on scripture. The purpose is to bring it up to...method. Much of this gospel is a re-writing of Mark, using the methods of midrash , but in the case of the infancy narratives , where he had no predecessor...
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Bet (ha-)Midrash
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Bet (ha-)Midrash (Heb., ‘house of study’). Houses of study...BCE, when Simeon Ben Sira asked people to ‘dwell in my bet midrash’ ( Ecclesiasticus 51. 47). They were the community centre...
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Amoraim
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...aggadic material that appears in the Talmud and in the Midrashim (see Midrash ). Bibliography: See J. Neusner, There We Sat Down (1972); H. L. Strack, Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash (1931, rev. ed. 1991).
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Tanḥuma
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Tanḥuma. A group of Jewish aggadic midrashim containing many midrashim attributed to Rabbi Tanḥuma Bar Abba (late 4th cent. CE). Tanḥuma is based on the triennial cycle of Torah reading observed in Erez Israel .
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