midrash
Sign in to savethumb|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".
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Midrash is a form of Jewish Biblical interpretation that uses rabbinic methods to explore deeper meanings in sacred texts, with the word itself deriving from a root meaning "to seek" or "enquire." It represents an important tradition of textual study that became prominent in the Talmud and shaped how Jewish scholars understood and applied Biblical teachings.
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- Etymology
- As a genre
- As method
- Jewish midrashic literature
- Halakhic midrashim
- Origins
- Aggadic midrashim
- Classical compilations
- Tannaitic
- Post-Talmudic
- Midrash Rabbah
- Contemporary Jewish midrash
- Contemporary views
- See also
- References
- External links
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".
Midrash and rabbinic readings "discern value in texts, words, and letters, as potential revelatory spaces", writes the Hebrew scholar Wilda Gafney. "They reimagine dominant narratival readings while crafting new ones to stand alongside—not replace—former readings. Midrash also asks questions of the text; sometimes it provides answers, sometimes it leaves the reader to answer the questions". Vanessa Lovelace defines midrash as "a Jewish mode of interpretation that not only engages the words of the text, behind the text, and beyond the text, but also focuses on each letter, and the words left unsaid by each line".