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The midrash, however, does not entirely cover the Biblical books; but as it contains all the passages quoted from it by other authorities, it may be assumed that (with two exceptions added by later copyists: chapter 4:1 [7] and chapter 32:3 et seq. [8]) it never contained any more than it does now, and that its present form is that into which ...
Aggadah (Hebrew: אַגָּדָה, romanized: Aggāḏā, or הַגָּדָה Haggāḏā; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אֲגַדְתָּא, romanized: Aggāḏṯā; 'tales', 'fairytale', 'lore') is the non-legalistic exegesis which appears in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly the Talmud and Midrash. In general, Aggadah ...
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He was a Professor Emeritus of Aggadah and Midrash in the Department of Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [3] He has been described as "an expert in the study of Midrashic Aggadah". [2] Professor Frankel's main contribution to research was the innovative approach he introduced to the study of the Aggadot of the Talmud ...
Based on the same core material as Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael, it followed a second route of commentary and editing, and eventually emerged as a distinct work. The Mekhilta of Rabbi Shimon is an exegetical midrash on Exodus 3 to 35, and is very roughly dated to near the fourth century. Seder Olam Rabbah (or simply Seder Olam).
The Three Oaths is the name for a midrash found in the Babylonian Talmud, and midrash anthologies, that interprets three verses from Song of Solomon as God imposing three oaths upon the world. Two oaths pertain to the Jewish people and a third oath applies to the gentile nations of the world.
From Exodus 12 the midrash was continued without interruption as far as Exodus 33:19, i.e. to the conclusion of the chief laws of the book, although there are many narrative portions scattered through this section whose midrash belongs properly to the aggadah. Furthermore, many aggadot are included in the legal sections as well.
Sifre 305 contains an exquisite little aggadah on Moses and the angel of death. [11] A long citation from the beginning of the midrash is also contained in a homily in Tanhuma [12] on the same theme, the death of Moses. A second recension is based on Proverbs 31:39, and is considered by Adolf Jellinek, but probably incorrectly, to be the older.