Learning to read Midrash
By: Simi Peters
Publisher: Urim Publications
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Jerusalem; New York
Language: eng
Translated from: heb
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Midrash; Study and teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

English and some Hebrew.
Table of contents: title: Understanding the Mashal (The Midrashic parable); title: The methodology of the Mashal, God and Avraham as King and warrior; title: The Petihta: using a verse to interpret a verse, the passerby and the fortress; title: The role of the Prooftext: the lady and her attendants; title: Engaging the reader in dialogue: the servant in the graveyard; title: Mashal as dialectic: questioning God about the Akeda; title: The affective force of a Mashal, Aharon purifies God; title: Understanding the narrative expansion; title: Exploring a Midrashic story: Avraham breaks the idols; title: Resolving a discrepancy: Moshe and his Father's voice; title: Exploring the significance of a Gesture: Moshe hides his face; title: Interpreting dialogue I: Moshe resists His Mission; title: Interpreting dialogue II: what is God's name; title: The meaning of a chronological problem: connecting Yosef and Yehuda; title: Portrait of a Biblical personality: exploring David's heart in the aftermath of sin; title: Reading between the lines: Hazal "rewrite" the story of Hana; title: Appendix: Hebrew sources