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midrash
thumb|250px|Title page, Midrash Tehillim
Midrash (; ; or midrashot) is an expansive Jewish Biblical exegesis using a rabbinic mode of interpretation prominent in the Talmud. The word itself means "textual interpretation", "study", or "exegesis", derived from the root verb (), which means "resort to, seek, seek with care, enquire, require".
Adamic language
language spoken by Adam in the Garden of Eden
Mikraot Gedolot
edition of the Tanakh with the classic Jewish commentaries
Midrash Rabba
part of or the collective whole of specific aggadic midrashim on the books of the Torah and the Five Megillot
Shi'ur Qomah
Midrashic text, part of the Heichalot; records, in anthropomorphic terms, the secret names and measurements of God’s corporeal limbs and parts, in the form of teachings of Metatron to Rabbi Yishmael, who transmits it to his students and Rabbi Akiva
Midrash HaGadol
14th century compilation of aggadic midrashim on the Torah taken from the two Talmuds and earlier Midrashim of Yemenite provenance.
Targum Sheni
Aramaic elaboration of Esther