Top Document: soc.culture.jewish FAQ: Torah and Halachic Authority (3/12) Previous Document: Question 3.26: What are the main Halakhic Midrashim? Next Document: Question 3.28: What are the main Homiletic Midrashim? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Answer: * Genesis Rabbah (Bereshit Rabbah). A midrash on Genesis, it offers explanations of words and sentences and haggadic interpretations and expositions, many of which are only loosely tied to the text. It is often interlaced with maxims and parables. Its redactor drew upon earlier rabbinic sources, including the Mishna, Tosefta, the halakhic midrashim the Targums. Genesis Rabbah also apparently drew upon a version of Talmud Yerushalmi that resembles, yet was not identical to, the text that survived to present times. It was redacted sometime in the early 5th century. * Lamentations Rabbah (Eichah Rabbah). An exegetical midrash on Eichah (Lamentations). It contains verse by verse expositions, simple lexical explanations and also many parables and stories. It contains many stories about the destruction of the Temple, the crises under Trajan and Hadrian, and the Bar Kokhba revolt. It draws upon the Mishna, Tosefta, Mekhilta, Sifra and Sifre. Lamentations Rabbah has been transmitted in two versions. One edition is represented by the 1st printed edition, 1519 Pesaro; the other is the Buber edition, based on manuscript J.I.4 from the Biblioteca Casanata in Rome. This latter version (i.e. Buber) is quoted by the Shulkhan Aurkh, as well as medieval Jewish authorities. It was probably redacted sometime in the 5th century. User Contributions:Top Document: soc.culture.jewish FAQ: Torah and Halachic Authority (3/12) Previous Document: Question 3.26: What are the main Halakhic Midrashim? Next Document: Question 3.28: What are the main Homiletic Midrashim? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: SCJ FAQ Maintainer <maintainer@scjfaq.org>
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