Author: Yaakov Yosef Reinman
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781583306109
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Midrash Rabbah HaMevo'ar, in the original Hebrew, opened the door to the world of Midrash to make this essential text on the Chumash and Megillos available to all. Now, the first volumes in this popular, groundbreaking work-Megillas Esther and Megillas Ruth-are available in English. The Midrash Rabbah HaMevo'ar offers levels of insight and meaning to these Megillos that will transform your understanding of the characters and events therein. Clearly written and beautifully bound, this innovative work contains the entire Midrash in Hebrew and English, together with a lucid, line-by-line explanation of the text-drawn from standard commentaries in the Vilna and Warsaw editions.
Author: Max Kadushin
Publisher:
Published: 2013-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781930675896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines each rabbinic text or sequence of homilies in order to uncover specific value concepts which are reflected in them either explicitly or implicitly.
Author: Benjamin Williams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-09-08
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0191077038
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Printed editions of midrashim, rabbinic expositions of the Bible, flooded the market for Hebrew books in the sixteenth century. First published by Iberian immigrants to the Ottoman Empire, they were later reprinted in large numbers at the famous Hebrew presses of Venice. This study seeks to shed light on who read these new books and how they did so by turning to the many commentaries on midrash written during the sixteenth century. These innovative works reveal how their authors studied rabbinic Bible interpretation and how they anticipated their readers would do so. Benjamin WIlliams focuses particularly on the work of Abraham ben Asher of Safed, the Or ha-Sekhel (Venice, 1567), an elucidation of midrash Genesis Rabba which contains both the author's own interpretations and also the commentary he mistakenly attributed to the most celebrated medieval commentator Rashi. Williams examines what is known of Abraham ben Asher's life, his place among the Jewish scholars of Safed, and the publication of his book in Venice. By analysing selected passages of his commentary, this study assesses how he shed light on rabbinic interpretation of Genesis and guided readers to correct interpretations of the words of the sages. A consideration of why Abraham ben Asher published a commentary attributed to Rashi shows that he sought to lend authority to his programme of studying midrash by including interpretations ascribed to the most famous commentator alongside his own. By analysing the production and reception of the Or ha-Sekhel, therefore, this work illuminates the popularity of midrash in the early modern period and the origins of a practice which is now well-established-the study of rabbinic Bible interpretation with the guidance of commentaries.
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780761820239
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This theological commentary to the Rabbinic Midrash explores a simple proposition, in three parts: I. The reading of Scripture by principal parts of the Rabbinic Midrash is formed by compositions and composites that are animated by a cogent theological system. II. These primary components of the Midrash-compilations, further, are in part aimed at systematic demonstrations of theorems of a theological character. III. While forming a principal part of a large theological structure and system, each document is unique.
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780761820222
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This theological commentary to the Rabbinic Midrash explores a simple proposition, in three parts: I. The reading of Scripture by principal parts of the Rabbinic Midrash is formed by compositions and composites that are animated by a cogent theological system. II. These primary components of the Midrash-compilations, further, are in part aimed at systematic demonstrations of theorems of a theological character. III. While forming a principal part of a large theological structure and system, each document is unique.
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780761819868
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This theological commentary to the Rabbinic Midrash explores a simple proposition, in three parts. I. The reading of Scripture by principal parts of the Rabbinic Midrash is formed by compositions and composites that are animated by a cogent theological system. II. These primary components of the Midrash-compilations, further, are in part aimed at systematic demonstrations of theorems of a theological character. III. While forming a principal part of a large theological structure and system, each document is unique. This commentary in its concluding chapter presents what is common to the animating theology of Rabbinic Judaism in all its documentary components and what is unique to Song of Songs Rabbah.