- each letter, and the
words left
unsaid by each line". An
example of a
midrashic interpretation: "And God saw all that He had made, and
found it very good...
- as
resulting in good, such as
destroying sinners. He is
considered in
Midrashic texts to be a
member of the
heavenly host with
often grim and destructive...
-
existed long
before they were
reduced to writing. The
first traces of the
midrashic exegesis are
found in the
Bible itself;
while in the time of the Soferim...
- to
designate the
primary sense,
contrasting it with the "Drash," the
Midrashic exegesis.
These two
terms were
later on
destined to
become important features...
-
Judah killed several members of Jashub's army (42 men
according to the
midrashic Book of Jasher, but 1000 men
according to the
Testament of Judah). According...
- The Shmuel-Bukh is a
midrashic verse epic
written in Yiddish.
Composed no
later than the
second half of the 15th
century and
widely circulated in m****cript...
- Gog and
Magog (/ˈɡɒɡ ... ˈmeɪɡɒɡ/ GOG ... MAY-gog; Hebrew: גּוֹג וּמָגוֹג, romanized: Gōg ū-Māgōg) or
Yajuj and
Majuj (Arabic: يَأْجُوجُ وَمَأْجُوجُ, romanized: Yaʾjūju...
- in
classical Judaica at Yale University,
specializing in
Talmudic and
Midrashic studies and
classical Judaica.
Before her
appointment at Yale, she served...
- (900-700BC), the
tribe of
Simeon was
dwindling out of existence. The
midrashic book of Jasher,
argues that it was
Simeon who
deceived Hamor by insisting...
- allusion).
Derash (דְרָשׁ from the
Hebrew darash: 'inquire' or 's****'):
midrashic (rabbinic) meanings,
often with
imaginative comparisons with
similar words...