Midrash as mnemonic. A new approach to rabbinic exegesis

Midrash Aggada has many functions, not all purely exegetical, as when it links the eighteen mentions of the Tetragrammaton in Psalm 29 to the eighteen benedictions of the Amida. Starting with this psalm, and moving on to other examples in Midrash Tehillim and elsewhere, the mnemonic functions of mid...

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Main Author: Hallo, William W. 1928-2015 (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: College 2003
In: Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion
Year: 2003, Volume: 74, Pages: 157-174
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Exegesis / Rabbinic Judaism
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Memory
B Bible. Psalmen 19
B Midrash
Parallel Edition:Electronic