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The Origins of Midrash: From Teaching to Text

The Origins of Midrash: From Teaching to Text

Hardcover

Judaism

ISBN10: 9004153144
ISBN13: 9789004153141
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jun 19 2017
Pages: 406
Weight: 1.80
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
In The Origins of Midrash: From Teaching to Text, Paul Mandel presents a comprehensive study of the words darash and midrash from the Bible until the early rabbinic periods (3rd century CE). In contrast to current understandings in which the words are identified with modes of analysis of the biblical text, Mandel claims that they refer to instruction in law and not to an interpretation of text.
Mandel traces the use of these words as they are associated with the scribe (sofer), the doresh ha-torah in the Dead Sea scrolls, the exegetes of the laws in the writings of Josephus and the rabbinic sage (ḥakham), showing the development of the uses of midrash as a form of instruction throughout these periods.

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