MIDRASH BIBLIOGRAPHY

General Studies: Midrash

  1. Aliner, Eliezer. "Derashah [Bitequfat Hattalmud]." In Ensyqlopediah Ha'ivrit [Hebrew Encyclopedia], 13:213-4. Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, 1949-1962.
  2. Bacher, Wilhelm. "Bible Exegesis." In Jewish Encyclopedia, 3:162-65. 1901-1906.
  3. Barth, Lewis M. "The Midrashic Enterprise." Jewish Book Annual 40 (1982-1983): 7-19.
  4. Bettan, Israel. "Early Jewish Preaching in the Synagogue." In Studies in Jewish Preaching, 3-49. Cincinnati: HUC Press, 1939.
  5. Bialik, Haim Nahman. "Halacha and Aggadah" (1917). Translated by L. Simon. Contemporary Jewish Record 7: 16 (December 1944).
  6. Bloch, Renee. "Methodological Note for the Study of Rabbinic Literature." In Approaches to Ancient Judaism I, edited by William Scott Green, 51-76. Missoula: Scholars Press, 1978.
  7. ________. "Midrash." In Approaches to Ancient Judaism I, edited by William Scott Green, 29-50. Missoula: Scholars Press, 1978.
  8. Boyarin, Daniel. Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
  9. ________. "Old Wine in New Bottles: Intertextuality and Midrash." Poetics Today 8 (1987): 539-56.
  10. Bregman, Marc. "Joseph Heinemann's Studies on the Aggadah." Immanuel 9 (l979): 58-62.
  11. ________. "Past and Present in Midrashic Literature." Hebrew Annual Review 2 (l978): 45-59.
  12. Daube, David. "Rabbinic Methods of Interpretation and Hellenistic Rhetoric." HUCA 22 (1949): 239-64.
  13. Diamond, Eliezer. "Midrashic Literature." In The Schocken Guide to Jewish Books, edited by Barry W. Holtz, 64-6. New York: Schocken, 1992.
  14. Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard. "'Who's Kidding Whom?: A Serious Reading of Rabbinic Word Plays." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 55 (1988): 756-88.
  15. Elata-Alster, Gerda and Rachel Salmon. "Vertical and Horizontal Readings of the Biblical Text." Linguistica Biblica 60 (1988): 31-59.
  16. Fishbane, Michael A. "The Garments of Torah: Essays in Biblical Hermeneutics." In The Garments of Torah: Essays in Biblical Hermeneutics. Pp. 19-46, 64-78, 121-33. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
  17. ________. "'The Holy One Sits and Roars': Mythopoesis and the Midrashic Imagination." In The Midrashic Imagination, edited by Michael Fishbane, 60-77. Albany: SUNY, 1993.
  18. ________. "Inner Biblical Exegesis: Types and Strategies of Interpretation in Ancient Israel." In Midrash and Literature, edited by Hartman, Geoffrey H. and Sanford Budick, 19-37. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
  19. ________. "Torah and Tradition." In Tradition and Theology in the Old Testament, edited by Douglas A. Night, 275-300. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1977.
  20. ________. Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.
  21. Fraade, Steven D. Enosh and His Generation: Pre-Israelite Hero and History in Postbiblical Interpretation. Chico, CA: , 1984.
  22. Frankel, Yonah.Darkhei ha'aggadah wehamidrash. Jerusalem: Yad La-Talmud, 1991.
  23. ________. Iyyunim b'olamo haruhani shel sipper ha'aggadah. Tel Aviv: HaKibbutz HaMe'uhad, 1981.
  24. Goldberg, Abraham. "Stereotype Diskurse in den frühen Auslegungsmidraschim." Frankfurter judaistische Beiträge 16 (1988): 23-51.
  25. Goldin, Judah. "The Freedom and Restraint of Haggadah." In Midrash and Literature, edited by Geoffrey H. Hartman, and Sanford Budick, 57- 76. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
  26. ________. "From Text to Interpretation and From Experience to the Interpreted Text." Prooftexts 3, no. 2 (1983): 157-68.
  27. Green, William Scott. "Romancing the Tome: Rabbinic Hermeneutics and the Theory of Literature." Semeia (1987): 147-68.
  28. Halivni, David Weiss. Peshat and Derash -- Plain and Applied Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
  29. Handelman, Susan A., The Slayers of Moses: The Emergence of Rabbinic Interpretation in Modern Literary Theory. Albany: State University of New York, 1982.
  30. Hartman, Geoffrey H. "On the Jewish Imagination." Prooftexts 5 (1985): 201-20.
  31. Heinemann, Isaak. Darkhei ha'aggadah. 2 ed. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1954.
  32. Heinemann, Joseph. Aggadot wetoldotehen [Aggadah and Its Development]. Jerusalem: Keter, 1974.
  33. ________. "The Nature of the Aggadah." Translated by Marc Bregman. In Midrash and Literature, pp. 41-55. Edited by Geoffrey H. Hartman and Sanford Budick. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. (First chapter of Heinemann's Aggadot wetoldotehen [Aggadah and Its Development]; see previous entry.)
  34. Herr, Moshe David. "Midrash." In Encyclopaedia Judaica, 11:1507-14. Jerusalem: Keter, 1972.
  35. Herr, Moshe David et al. "Aggadah." In Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2:354-64. Jerusalem: Keter, 1972.
  36. Holtz, Barry W. Finding Our Way--Jewish Texts and the Lives We Lead Today. New York: Schocken, 1990.
  37. ________. "Midrash." In Back To the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts, 177-211. New York: Summit Books, 1984.
  38. Horovitz, S. "Midrash." In Jewish Encyclopedia, 8:548-50. 1901-1906.
  39. Jacobs, Irving. The Midrashic Process. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  40. Jacobs, Louis. "Hermeneutics." In Encyclopaedia Judaica, 8:366-72. Jerusalem: Keter 1972.
  41. Kugel, James. In Potiphar's House: The Interpretive Life of Biblical Texts. San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1990.
  42. Kugel, James L. "Early Interpretation: The Common Background of Late Forms of Biblical Exegesis." In Early Biblical Interpretation, edited by Kugel, James and Rowan A. Greer, 11-106. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986.
  43. ________. "Two Introductions to Midrash." In Midrash and Literature, edited by Hartman, Geoffrey H. and Sanford Budick, 77-103. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
  44. LeDeaut, Roger. "Apropos a Definition of Midrash." Interpretation 25 (1971): 259-82.
  45. Lieberman, Saul. "Introduction; The Greek of the Rabbis; The Greek of the Synagogue." In Greek in Jewish Palestine, 1-67. New York: JTS, 1942.
  46. ________. "The Hermeneutic Rules of the Aggadah." In Hellenism in Jewish Palestine, 68-82. New York: JTS, 1962.
  47. ________. "Rabbinic Interpretation of Scripture." In Hellenism in Jewish Palestine, 47-67. New York: JTS, 1962.
  48. Loewe, Raphael. "The 'Plain' Meaning of Scripture in Early Jewish Exegesis." Papers of the Institute of Jewish Studies [London] 1 (1964): 140-85.
  49. Mack, Hananel. The Aggadic Midrash Literature. Tel Aviv: MOD Books, 1989.
  50. Jacob Mann. The Bible As Read and Preached in the Old Synagogue, 2 vols., edited by Sonne, Jacob. Cincinnati: 1940. (Reprint of vol. 1. New York: KTAV, 1971.)
  51. Miller, Merrill P. "Midrash." In Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible: Supplementary Volume, 593-7. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1976.
  52. Mintz, Alan. Hurban: Responses to Catastrophe in Hebrew Literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.
  53. Mirsky, Aaron. The Origins of the Forms of Liturgical Poetry [Hebrew]. Jerusalem: Schocken, 1969.
  54. Neusner, Jacob. Invitation to Midrash. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1989.
  55. ________. Introduction to Rabbinic Literature. pp. 221-546, New York: Doubleday, 1994.
  56. ________. Midrash in Context: Exegesis in Formative Judaism. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1983.
  57. ________. What Is Midrash? Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987.
  58. ________, with William Scott Green. Writing with Scripture: The Authority and Uses of the Hebrew Bible in Formative Judaism. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1989. Reprint. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993.
  59. Noy, Dov. "Hassipur ha'amami 'esel 'edot yisrael." Mahanayim 104 (1966): 44-53.
  60. ________. Mabo' lesifrut ha'aggadah. Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1966.
  61. Porton, Gary. "Defining Midrash." In The Study of Ancient Judaism I, edited by Jacob Neusner, 55-103. New York: KTAV, 1981.
  62. Rawidowicz, Simon. "On Interpretation." In Studies in Jewish Thought, edited by Nahum Glatzer. Philadelphia: JPS, 1974.
  63. Sandmel, Samuel. "The Haggadah Within Scripture." JBL 80 (1961): 105-22.
  64. Sarason, Richard S. "Kadushin's Study of Midrash: Value-Concepts and Their Literary Embodiment." In Understanding the Rabbinic Mind: Essays on the Rabbinic Thought of Max Kadushin, edited by Peter Ochs, 45-72. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.
  65. ________. "Toward a New Agendum for the Study of Rabbinic Midrashic Literature." In Studies in Aggadah, Targum and Jewish Liturgy in Memory of Joseph Heinemann, edited by Petuchowski, Jakob J. and Ezra Fleischer, 55-73. Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1981.
  66. Shinan, Avigdor. The Aggadic Literature: A Reader Selected From Tarbiz--A Quarterly for Jewish Studies [Hebrew]. Jerusalem: Magnes, 1983.
  67. ________. The World of the Aggadah. Tel-Aviv: MOD Books, 1990.
  68. Slonimsky, Henry. "The Philosophy Implicit in the Midrash." HUCA 27 (1956): 235-91.
  69. Spiegel, Shalom. Introduction to Legends of the Bible by Louis Ginzberg. Edited by Judah Goldin. Philadelphia: JPS, 1956. Reprint. New York: Bantam Books, 1970.
  70. Strack, Hermann L. revised by Gunter Stemberger. Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash. Translated by Markus Bockmuehl. Originally published as Einleitung in Talmud Und Midrasch. Munich: Beck, 1982. Reprint. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1991. [US edition: Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992; 2nd english edition: Edinburgh: T & T Clark and Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996. "PART Three: Midrashim, Section 1 [Introduction]." 254-268; 2nd edition, pp. 233-246..
  71. Stern, David. "Midrash." In Contemporary Jewish Thought, edited by Cohen, Arthur A. and Paul Mendes-Flohr, 613-20. New York: MacMillan, 1987.
  72. ________. "Midrash and Indeterminacy." Critical Inquiry 15 (1988): 132-61.
  73. ________. Parables in Midrash -- Narrative and Exegesis in Rabbinic Literature. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.
  74. Theodor, Julius. "Midrash Haggadah." In Jewish Encyclopedia, 8:550-69. 1901-1906.
  75. Urbach, Ephraim E. and Simcha Asaf. "Aggadah." In Ensyqlopediah Ha'ivrit [Hebrew Encyclopedia, 353-65. n.d.
  76. Vermes, Geza. "Bible and Midrash: Early Old Testament Exegesis." In Post Biblical Jewish Studies, 59-91. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1975.
  77. ________. Scripture and Tradition in Judaism. Leiden: Brill, 1961; 2nd edition, 1973.
  78. Visotzky, Burton L. Reading the Book: Making the Bible a Timeless Text. New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1991.
  79. Wright, Addison. The Literary Genre Midrash. Staten Island: Alba House, 1967.
  80. Zunz, Leopold. Haderoshot beyisrael. 2 ed. Edited by Hanoch Albeck. Translated by M. A. Z'ak. Reprint. Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 1954. Originally published as Die gottesdienstlichen Vorträge der Juden. 1832; Hebrew translation is based on the 2nd edition, Frankfurt a.M.: 1892.

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