Aggadic Midrash I
Subtitle: sample reader
By: Daniel Maoz ; with a foreword by Ira Robinson
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773425484
Subjects: Aggada; History and criticism; Midrash
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. Aggadic sources; title: Pt. II. Non-aggadic sources; title: Political strategum; title: Investigation; title: The power of words; title: Gematria, counting, and playing with letters and words; title: Threes, fours, and other numeric groupings; title: Lessons from nature; title: Animated creatures; title: Aggadic correlation to halakhah; title: Aggadic apologia; title: Categories: biblical commentary and Jewish exegesis; title: Categories: moral and ethical values; title: Torah; title: Religious matters; title: Biblical figures (Adam, Moses, David, the Messiah); title: Polemic against Christianity; title: Appendix B: The Rabbis.