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Midrash ha-Ḥefez (lit. "Midrash of desire"), or "Commentary of the Book of the Law", [1] is a Hebrew midrash written by the physician and Rabbi, Yihye ibn Suleiman al-Dhamari, otherwise known as Zechariah ben Solomon ha-Rofé, which he began to write in 1430 in Yemen and concluded some years later. [2]
Midrash Rabba — widely studied are the Rabboth (great commentaries), a collection of ten midrashim on different books of the Bible (namely, the five books of the Torah and the Five Megillot). Although referred to collectively as the Midrash Rabbah, they are not a cohesive work, being written by different authors in different locales in ...
Midrash HaGadol or The Great Midrash (Hebrew: מדרש הגדול) is a work of aggaddic midrash, expanding on the narratives of the Torah, which was written by David ben Amram Adani of Yemen (14th century). Its contents were compiled from the Jerusalem [1] and Babylonian Talmud [1] and earlier midrashic literature of tannaitic provenance. [2]
The book covers biblical history from the creation of Adam and Eve until a summary of the initial Israelite conquest of Canaan in the beginning of the book of Judges.. The Bible twice quotes from a Sefer haYashar, and this midrashic work includes text that fits both Biblical references — the reference about the Sun and Moon found in Joshua, and also the reference in 2 Samuel (in the Hebrew ...
The Story of the Book of Kings, also called the Midrash on the Book of Kings, [1] is a lost work mentioned in the Bible. The book is found nowhere in the Old Testament, so it is presumed to have been lost or removed from the earlier texts. The book is described in 2 Chronicles 24:27:
Tosafot say that the midrash consists of a large book and a small one. [2] R. Nathan ben Jehiel says: "The midrash contains baraitot which the prophet taught to Anan, and consists of two parts, a large seder with 30 chapters, and a small seder with 12 chapters; and all of the Tanna debe Eliyahu cited in the Talmud is to be found in these baraitot."
It is a midrash comprising a collection of ancient rabbinical homiletical interpretations of the Book of Genesis. It is an expository midrash to the first book of the Torah , assigned by tradition to the amora Hoshaiah Rabbah , who flourished in the third century in Roman-ruled Syria Palaestina .
It must be assumed, therefore, that Ishmael composed an explanatory midrash to the last four books of the Torah, and that his pupils amplified it. [8] A later editor, intending to compile a halakhic midrash to Exodus, took Ishmael's work on the book, beginning with ch. 12, since the first eleven chapters contained no references to the halakha. [9]