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The 26 pages that link to Midrash, each with the reason it gives.

• Hebrew BibleRelated: It develops meanings from the Hebrew Bible through close reading and creative commentary.

• TalmudRelated: Talmudic discussions frequently interpret scripture through methods associated with midrash.

• TorahRelated: Midrash explores implications and gaps in Torah passages beyond their plain wording.

• Rabbinic JudaismRelated: Midrash draws meanings and legal teachings from the wording and structure of scripture.

• JudaismRelated: It shows how close reading generates narrative and legal meanings beyond the text's surface.

• Oral TorahRelated: Midrash shows how oral interpretive traditions draw meaning from biblical wording.

• Biblical hermeneuticsRelated: It demonstrates interpretive practices rooted in Jewish scriptural traditions.

• Babylonian TalmudRelated: Scriptural interpretation supplies arguments and legal derivations throughout the Talmud.

• ExegesisRelated: Rabbinic midrash developed distinctive ways of extending and connecting scriptural passages.

• Jewish philosophyRelated: Its interpretive practices connect close reading with theological and ethical argument.

• Hebrew literatureRelated: Its imaginative expansions became a major source of Hebrew narrative and allusion.

• Jewish literatureRelated: Midrash makes biblical interpretation a source of narrative and imaginative writing.

• Rabbinic literatureRelated: Midrash shows how rabbis derived teachings from biblical language and narrative.

• ShekhinahRelated: Midrash elaborates how divine presence accompanies Israel across changing circumstances.

• AmoraimRelated: Amoraic interpretation drew on scriptural reasoning as well as Mishnah commentary.

• Jewish ethicsRelated: Its interpretations draw ethical lessons from scriptural passages and characters.

• RabbiRelated: Midrash shows how rabbis draw legal, ethical, and narrative meaning from scripture.

• TargumRelated: Many Targum expansions use interpretive techniques also found in Midrash.

• NachmanidesRelated: He often draws on midrashic traditions while also challenging particular interpretations.

• RishonimRelated: Rishonim drew on scriptural interpretation alongside their analysis of Talmudic law.

• Jewish symbolismRelated: Midrash expands the symbolic meanings attached to biblical objects and events.

• Jewish mythologyRelated: Midrash fills narrative gaps and elaborates biblical figures, events, and cosmic scenes.

• Shmuel Yosef AgnonRelated: Agnon’s narratives often adapt the interpretive habits and storytelling textures of midrash.