Talk:Midrash

message: Is there any reason why Midrash Qoholet Rabbah and Midrash Esther Rabbah were moved from Midrash Rabbah to (Post)-Talmudic?  It seems a bit odd to list only eight of the ten rabboth in the section devoted to them. -- Arvind 16:32, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You can make changes, just cite good sources.  If the original source has "yichus"  (i.e., Jewish Encyclopedia or Brittanica), I would leave the original intact with appropriate citation, and add the "better" date next to it (with appropriate citation). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dfass (talk • contribs) 17:19, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

text: I think Wikipedians generally frown on these types of links.  Best policy is to link only to secular academic sources, otherwise we end up with everyone adding their list of "favorites" to the article, and you will surely be unhappy when the various "cult" links begin appearing.  —Dfass 17:15, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Midrash Rabbah 

message: What the article states that it was not before the eighth century, is in contradiction with Radal's (Rav Dovid Luria) opinion, printed in many text of the midrash in the intro. do we have a source for this? if not, shouldn't we write Radal's opinion? Samson Ben-Manoach 23:16, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pirkey Drabi Eliezer 

message: no response so i am adding radals opinion. Samson Ben-Manoach 11:03, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, just source it.  —Dfass 14:38, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  editting pirkey drabi eliezer infor 

message: This article is currently undergoing a review at Wikipedia:Good article review, as there were some problems detected in the article in which certain points do not meet Good article criteria. Notable problems included an inadequate lead per WP:LEAD, a complete lack of inline citations, and a lack of references throughout the article. In addition, while it is not a requirement, Good Articles are often fitted with images to improve the article's quality. If you support this delistment, or think the article should remain as a GA, feel free to add comments on the GA Review page. Thanks, Raime 14:26, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This article has been delisted from its GA-status, as it did not meet criteria and was subject to speedy failing. Please meet the above problems before renominating the article as a Good article candidate. Raime 17:29, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Good Article Review

message: Is there a difference in the secular academic estimate of the dates of composition and the traditional dates as in BIble books? If so, could we have both listed? 88.155.94.77 18:33, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Is there a difference?

message: Is there a way to make this article intelligible to someone who has heard the term but has no background, insight, experience, or understanding of the topic?  I am someone like that, and I came to this article to understand what midrash was.  I left completely bewildered.  Yes, I could look up each and every term, but I suspect in most encyclopedias, I would be given some opening information that did not require other information in order to be understood. As it stands now, it seems to be an article intended only for those who already know what it is and who are quite familiar with the realm of study it relates to. Monkeyzpop (talk) 10:03, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Intelligibility

message: I don't think this is correct, and perhaps someone has confused it with "mishnah". Also, while nearly all Hebrew words come from a verbal root, this word is a noun. I would have translated it literally as "study, research, homily." 24.245.53.137 (talk) 17:16, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Midrash = "to repeat"?

message: An anonymous ip editor diff added a long essay arguing that the oral law is a fiction and other related ideas.  As the talk pages are to talk about the article itself, not the subject of the article, I have removed it.  If anyone would like to respond to the poster comments I recommend finding a forum more conducive to that discussion - Wikipedia is not the place.  Jon513 (talk) 16:08, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits by [[Special:Contributions/24.57.60.200|24.57.60.200]]s

message: There is a somewhat of a fringe theory about Jesus that argues from the standpoint of the Jewish Midrash. It essentially claims that the Gospels' historicity has been widely exagerated because of an alleged reproduction of key passages from the Old Testament or Tanakh. Although this theory has been widely discredited by mainstream exegetes, it remains popular among ideologically motivated secularist writers because it is one of the more common versions of the equally discredited Christ myth theory. It has even been adopted by a few liberal Christian theologians such as John Shelby Spong. ADM (talk) 23:06, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Midrash theory about Jesus

message: Why is this article replete with so much jargon?  I could not parse what exactly is "homilectic" about the midrash anywhere in the article.   This is a consistent problem with the field of theology and the people who study it: the use of obscurantism to make their subject seem as exacting as the sciences.   It's annoying as heck.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.177.180.123 (talk) 10:20, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Intelligibility of This article

message: The article reads like original research because there are so few inline citations and overall references. It (as others have noted) appears to be overly complex. I am not familiar with the subject matter enough to make wholesale changes but am available to help.Awotter (talk) 05:17, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Multiple Issues tag

message: I have a COI (I work for Sefaria), and have discussed it on WikiProject:Judaism.
Sefaria has Hebrew/Aramaic text for nearly all of primary midrashim, all in the public domain, and has English for many of the primary ones - Sifra, Sifrei, Mekhilta, etc - all CC-BY, in parallel translation. 
I think this is a relevant resource to include here, in the external links section. 
Before I understood the correct process for requesting a change like this, I went it in and made an edit, and had it reverted. 
Link should probably be to the Midrash table of contents. 
LevEliezer (talk) 09:50, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Per the discussion at the conflict of interest noticeboard and WikiProject Judaism, which were favorably disposed to granting this edit request, I have added the link. Altamel (talk) 01:38, 2 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request Edit - Public Domain and CC-BY Hebrew/Aramaic and English Texts 

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message: It seems two of the earliest descriptions of midrash in this article are from Christian scholars.  Admittedly, Old Testament and Hebrew Scripture seem to be their areas of study, but it would seem more appropriate for the first descriptions presented to come from Jewish scholars. Shawncoons  — Preceding undated comment added 14:24, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: More Jewish descriptions of midrash