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The Midrash portrays the influence of Satan bringing about the sinful relation of David and Bathsheba as follows: Bath-sheba was making her bathing on the roof of her house behind a screen of wickerwork, when Satan came in the disguise of a bird; David, shooting at it, struck the screen, splitting it; thus Bathsheba was revealed in her beauty ...
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.
Bathsheba (Italian: Betsabea) is an 1827 history painting by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez. [1] It features the biblical figure of Bathsheba in a nude scene , who is watched bathing by the Israelite king David .
Midrash is increasingly seen as a literary and cultural construction, responsive to literary means of analysis. [47] Frank Kermode has written that midrash is an imaginative way of "updating, enhancing, augmenting, explaining, and justifying the sacred text". Because the Tanakh came to be seen as unintelligible or even offensive, midrash could ...
Bathsheba at Her Bath (Italian: Betsabea al bagno) is an 1834 history painting by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez. [1] It depicts the biblical story of Bathsheba who is spied bathing by the Israelite king David her future husband. It was a popular theme for artists from the Renaissance era onwards. [2]
Midrash Rabba or Midrash Rabbah can refer to part of or the collective whole of specific aggadic midrashim on the books of the Torah and the Five Megillot, generally having the term "Rabbah" (רבה ), meaning "great," as part of their name. These midrashim are as follows: Genesis Rabbah; Exodus Rabbah
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.
According to Strack & Stemberger (1991), the midrash may be considered to be composed of two different parts which were combined in the 12th or 13th century. An older part characterized by non-anonymous proems, originating in Palestine around 500 CE, which draws material from Talmud Yerushalmi , Genesis Rabbah , and Leviticus Rabbah .