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Midrash (/ˈmɪdrɑːʃ/; Hebrew: מִדְרָשׁ; pl. מִדְרָשִׁים
midrashim or מִדְרָשׁוֹת midrashot) is
expansive Jewish Biblical exegesis using a
rabbinic mode...
- A
number of
midrashim exist which are
smaller in size, and
generally later in date, than
those dealt with in the
articles Midrash Haggadah and Midrash...
- The
Aggadic Midrashim, generally, are
explanatory aggadah,
deriving the "sermonic implications" from the
biblical text. The
Halakhic Midrashim derive the...
- of the
first sort are the
halakhic midrashim. This name they
receive to
distinguish them from the
haggadic midrashim,
since they
contain halakhot for the...
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various later additions.
Jellinek thinks that
there were
several aggadic midrashim to Song of Songs, each of
which interpreted the book differently, one...
- A
demon is a
malevolent supernatural entity. Historically,
belief in demons, or
stories about demons,
occurs in folklore, mythology, religion, and literature;...
- more
specific sense of "Rabbinic literature"—referring to the Talmud,
Midrashim (Hebrew: מדרשים), and
related writings, but
hardly ever to
later texts—is...
- literature, he has not yet been
identified with Satan. Only in
later Midrashim is he
entitled "head of satans." As
guardian angel and
prince of Rome...
- haNe'elam is
similar in its
overall form to the
language of the
early midrashim, but its
specific vocabulary, idioms, and
stylistic characteristics bear...
- ISBN 978-965-223-529-9. Eisenstein, J.D.,
Alpha Beta Ben Sira, in:
Otsar Midrashim vol. 1 (1915). Steinschneider,
Moritz Alphabeti**** Syracidis,
Berlin (1854)...
