Learning to Read Midrash

By Simi Peters

Format: Hardcover

Pages: 310

ISBN: 978-965-710-857-4

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Learning to read Midrash is a valuable skill for students of Tanakh. For teachers, it is of vital importance. Even so, our attempts to study Midrash are often stymied by the lack of tools for grappling with this complex realm of Torah study. Readers may also find certain midrashim disturbingly implausible. Are such accounts meant to be taken literally? If not, what are we to make of them?