Midrash Raba and Midrash Tanhuma will be the main Midrashic sources.
From internal evidence in the New Testament it would seem that Jesus and the apostles employed a Midrashic hermeneutic as evidenced in the manner by which the New Testament often uses and explains the old.
It is expressed more than anything else by the relation of the Midrashic text to chapter 28 of Job.
Scholars such as Yitzhak Heinemann and Yonah Frankel suggested classification of Midrashic passages by form.
And so, when dealing with these Awesome Days, I'll stick to the relative safety of Talmudic trivia, Midrashic miscellany, customs and folklore.
Definition of Midrashic in US English:
Midrashic
adjectivemidˈräSHik
See Midrash
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Scholars such as Yitzhak Heinemann and Yonah Frankel suggested classification of Midrashic passages by form.
It is expressed more than anything else by the relation of the Midrashic text to chapter 28 of Job.
Midrash Raba and Midrash Tanhuma will be the main Midrashic sources.
From internal evidence in the New Testament it would seem that Jesus and the apostles employed a Midrashic hermeneutic as evidenced in the manner by which the New Testament often uses and explains the old.
And so, when dealing with these Awesome Days, I'll stick to the relative safety of Talmudic trivia, Midrashic miscellany, customs and folklore.