Midrash

Alternate Labels

  • Midrashim
  • Jewish Exegesis
  • Halakah
  • Tradition
  • Exegetical Midrash
  • Homiletical Midrash
  • Aggadic Midrash
  • Halakhic Midrash
  • Tannaitic Midrash

Key Passages

Reading List

1. Articles

1.1. In English Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

  • Midrash | Concise Oxford English Dictionary
  • midrash | Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Eleventh Edition)

1.2. In Bible Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

  • Midrash | The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary
  • Midrash | Harper’s Bible Dictionary
  • Midrash | Eerdmans Bible Dictionary
  • Midrash | Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible
  • MIDRASH | Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary
  • Midrash | Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary
  • Midrash | Tyndale Bible Dictionary
  • Midrash | Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels
  • Midrashim. | Dictionary of New Testament Background
  • Midrash | Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments
  • Midrash | The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
  • Midrash | Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible
  • Midrash | The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Revised
  • midrash | The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible, Volume 4, M–P

1.3. In Theological Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

  • Midrash | New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology
  • Midrash | Vine’s complete expository dictionary of Old and New Testament words
  • Midrash | Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible
  • Jewish Exegesis | Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible
  • midrash | Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek
  • midrash | Pocket Dictionary of Biblical Studies

1.4. In Theological Journals

2. Chapters and Sections

2.1. In Systematic Theologies

2.2 In Methodological Books

2.3. In Other Books

  • Page 286 | Jewish Law: History, Sources, Principles, Vol. I

3. In Commentaries

3.1 Old Testament Examples

3.2 New Testament Examples

3.3 Rabbinic Literature in Bible Commentaries’ Interpretations

  • 1 Peter 5:13 | 1 Peter: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary

3.4 Patristic Uses

4. Tzvee Zahavy

4.1 Bibliography

  • Daniel Boyarin, Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash, Bloomington, 1990
  • Roger Brooks, The Spirit of the Ten Commandments: shattering the myth of Rabbinic legalism, San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1990
  • Jose Faur, Golden Doves with Silver Dots: Semiotics and textuality in rabbinic tradition, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986
  • Michael Fishbane, Biblical interpretation in ancient Israel, Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
  • Moshe Greenberg, Parshanut ha-Mikra ha-yehudit : pirke mavo, Yerushalayim: Mosad Byalik, 1983
  • David Halivni, Peshat and Derash: Plain and applied meaning in Rabbinic exegesis, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991
  • B. Holtz (ed.), Back to the Sources: Reading Classical Jewish Texts, New York, 1984
  • James Kugel, In Potiphar’s House: the interpretive life of biblical texts, San Francisco: Harper, 1990
  • J. Kugel and R. Greer, Early Biblical Interpretation, Philadelphia, 1986
  • Ezra Zion Melamed, Mefarshe ha-Mikra : darkehem ve-shitotehem, Jerusalem: Hotsaat sefarim al-shem Y. L. Magnes, ha-Universitah ha-Ivrit; Tel Aviv: ha-Mekhirah ha-rashit, Yavneh, 1975.
  • Jacob Neusner, The Midrash: An Introduction, Northvale: Aronson, 1990
  • Gary G. Porton, Understanding Rabbinic Midrash, New York, 1985
  • Midrash | The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary
  • David Stern, Parables in Midrash : narrative and exegesis in rabbinic literature, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991.
  • Interpretation, History of | The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary
  • M.H. Segal, Parsanut HaMiqra, Jerusalem, 1952
  • Hermeneutics, Early Rabbinic | The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary
  • Burton L. Visotzky, Reading the Book : making the Bible a timeless text, New York: Anchor Books, 1991.


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