In the frame-work of this close textual reading Blumenthal requests his students to rewrite the creation narrative from the point of view of a commentary. Magonet also provides for the uninitiated student a basic introduction to Rashi's method. Thoma's essay highlights some crucial theological insights that he gained during his collaboration with S. Lauer. By focusing on these narratives and their application Thoma gives the reader a keen understanding of rabbinic theology. In the examples chosen, the latter unit always goes back to the initial biblical lemma.
Fractures appear as a result of redactional activity in which separate texts are blended together.
Rottzoll attempts to rectify some scholarly understandings of certain utterances by Ibn Ezra concerning the authorship of the Torah by Moses. However, this summary of previous scholarship on Ibn Ezra does not really fulfill the original purpose of the article to rectify the issue. In Carr's view perceived fractures in the biblical text could have served as interpretative opportunities for early Jewish interpreters. Rabbinic commentaries in respect to the first book of the Torah, Genesis, is the topic of one of Millard's essays. He does not differentiate between commentary and midrash and in my judgment this is not technically correct.