An introduction to the seven Midrash compilations with a lucid account of their main points. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

David Stern shows how the parable or mashal--the most distinctive type of narrative in midrash--was composed, how its symbolism works, and how it serves to conv

The author presents English readers with an easily accessible entrance into the world of Midrash, the classical rabbinic literature containing the commentaries

Presents stories of heroic individuals from the Talmud and Midrash.

Presenting a systematic approach to the study of midrash, each of the readings presented in this book attempts to reconstruct the reasoning behind midrashic com