TY - BOOK AU - Goldstone,Matthew AU - Jacobs,Jonathan AU - Lehmhaus,Lennart AU - Nelson,David W. AU - Schaser,Nicholas J. AU - Schofer,Jonathan AU - Shannon,Avram Richard AU - Ulmer,Rivka AU - Vanhoff,Robert TI - Torah is a Hidden Treasure: Proceedings of the Midrash Section, Society of Biblical Literature T2 - Judaism in Context SN - 9781463240783 PY - 2019///] CY - Piscataway, NJ : PB - Gorgias Press, KW - Judaism KW - RELIGION KW - Sacred Writings KW - RELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; 'EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS BLESSING': THE INTERPRETATION OF REUBEN AND ISSACHAR IN GENESIS RABBAH --; EXODUS RABBAH AND THE AGGADIC RESPONSE TO BIBLICAL LAW: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND THE COVENANT CODE --; NATURAL LAW AND THE STATUTES OF ISRAEL: RABBINIC LEGAL DISCOURSE IN LEVITICUS RABBAH --; TOWARDS A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF THE DEFINING FEATURES OF RABBINIC MIDRASH --; AUTHORSHIP AND AUTHORITY: PATTERNS OF CHANGE IN SEDER ELIYAHU, PIRKE DE RABBI ELIEZER AND THE ALPHABET OF BEN SIRA IN THEIR GEONIC AND EARLY ISLAMICATE CONTEXTS --; RETROSPECTION AS AN EXEGETICAL DEVISE IN RASHBAM'S TORAH COMMENTARY --; A NECESSARY YOD: HOW MASORAH AND MIDRASH HELPED TO CLARIFY THE CANON; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - The chapters in Torah is a Hidden Treasure pertain to authorship in Seder Eliyahu Rabba and Pirqe deRabi Eliezer, natural law and Israel's statutes, Masorah and midrash, as well as a definition of midrash. The Hebrew Bible and midrash is researched in the interpretation of Israelite tribes, the Ten Commandments and the Covenant Code, and in Rashbam's Bible commentary and its exegetical devices UR - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240790 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463240790 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463240790/original ER -