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Midrash (plural, midrashim) is a genre of rabbinic literature that includes nonliteral elaborations of biblical texts, often for homiletic purposes.

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Footnote 1 - Bible Books

On the same subject, see John J. Pilch, review of Jesus the Healer, by Stevan L. Davies, in Bible Books, BR 13:02.

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Footnote 1 - A Biblical Spice Rack

Composed in about 160 to 150 B.C.E., Jubilees recounts biblical history from the Creation to the arrival of the Israelites at Mt. Sinai. The author quotes heavily from the biblical text but also omits portions and adds his own interpretations of the texts. See James VanderKam, “Jubilees—How It Rewrote the Bible,” BR 08:06.

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Footnote 2 - The Jewish Roots of Matthew’s Vitriol

See Moshe Weinfeld, “The Charge of Hypocrisy in Matthew 23 and in Jewish Sources,” The New Testament and Christian-Jewish Dialogue: Studies in Honor of David Flusser, ed. M. Lowe, Immanuel 24/25 (1990), pp. 52–58.

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Footnote 1 - The Jewish Roots of Matthew’s Vitriol

See Anthony Saldarini, “Understanding Matthew’s Vitriol,” BR 13:02.

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Footnote 2 - What Really Happened at Mount Sinai?

Although divided into the Five Books of Moses, the Torah is truly a continuous narrative, recounting the development of Israel and its introduction to God’s laws. The unity of the text is expressed in its Greek name, the Pentateuch, which originally meant not five books but rather a single book divided into five parts.