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Article: Current Trends in the Study of Midrash.(Book review)
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- Biblical Theology Bulletin
- Article date:
- December 22, 2008
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Current Trends in the Study of Midrash. Edited by Carol Bakhos. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Academic Press, 2006. Pp. vi + 336. Cloth, $145.00.
Current Trends in the Study of Midrash provides a self-standing portrait of a most elusive genre of literature common to Jewish and Christian sacred literature. The authors take us behind the texts and beyond matters of popular concern to address methodological matters that determine what the readable text should look like, how choices are made from a legion of manuscript variants, and how best to express original language(s) in a postmodern world. Unlike other important recent collective studies on midrash (e. g., ...