Michael Fishbane is Professor of Jewish Studies in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, an elected fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research and holder of a Lifetime Award for Textual Studies from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture in America. Joanna Weinberg is Professor of Early Modern Jewish History and Rabbinics at the University of Oxford.

'Midrash Unbound is a significant and substantial contribution to the study of midrashic literature, method and process as manifested in diverse Jewish sources and select non-Jewish writings, from Late Antiquity to the Modern age. Fishbane and Weinberg have brought together an impressive array of scholars to explore the nature of Midrash in varied historical and geographical contexts, pointing out, as the aptly chosen title suggests, transformations and innovations in the development of the genre. [...] It is a volume that enriches and meaningfully extends discussion on how we can understand Midrash and its development in diverse literary forms and historical contexts.' Dr Helen Spurling, BAJS Review

• Note on Transliteration Introduction - Michael Fishbane and Joanna Weinberg Part I Origins and Subsurface Traditions1 Midrash and the Meaning of Scripture - Michael Fishbane 2 The Hand upon the Lord’s Throne: Targumic and Midrashic Perceptions of Exodus 17: 14--16 - Robert Hayward 3 Unwashed Hands: A Midrashic Controversy in the Gospel of Matthew - Piet van Boxel 4 ‘Tradunt Hebraei . . .’ The Problem of the Function and Reception of Jewish Midrash in Jerome - Alison Salvesen 5 Midrash in Syriac - Sebastian Brock Part II Later Midrashic Forms 6 Piyut and Midrash: Between Poetic Invention and Rabbinic Convention - Michael Fishbane 7 The Mourners of Zion and the Suffering Messiah: Pesikta rabati 34---Structure, Theology, and Content - Philip Alexander 8 The Toledot jeshu as Midrash - William Horbury 9 Storytelling as Midrashic Discourse in the Middle Ages - Eli Yassif 10 Performative Midrash in the Memory of Ashkenazi Martyrs - Ivan G. Marcus Part III Medieval Transformations 11 Midrash in a Leixical Key: The Arukh of Nathan ben Yehiel - Joanna Weinberg 12 Rashi’s Choice: The {H.}umash Commentary as Rewritten Midrash - Ivan G. Marcus 13 The Pendulum of Exegetical Methodology: From the Peshat to the Derash and Back - Sara Japhet 14 Midrashic Texts and Methods in Tosafist Torah Commentaries - Ephraim Kanarfogel 15 Zoharic Literature and Midrashic Temporality - Elliot Wolfson Part IV Early Modern and Modern Traditions 16 The Ingathering of Midrash Rabbah - Benjamin Williams 17 Midrash in Medieval and Early Modern Sermons - Marc Saperstein 18 Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague and his Attitude to the Aggadah - Jacob Elbaum 19 The Destruction of the Temple: A Yiddish Booklet for the Ninth of Av - Jacob Elbaum and Chava Turniansky 20 Midrash in Habad Hasidism - Naftali Loewenthal Notes on Contributors Index

Michael Fishbane is Professor of Jewish Studies in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, an elected fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research and holder of a Lifetime Award for Textual Studies from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture in America. Joanna Weinberg is Professor of Early Modern Jewish History and Rabbinics at the University of Oxford.

'Midrash Unbound is a significant and substantial contribution to the study of midrashic literature, method and process as manifested in diverse Jewish sources and select non-Jewish writings, from Late Antiquity to the Modern age. Fishbane and Weinberg have brought together an impressive array of scholars to explore the nature of Midrash in varied historical and geographical contexts, pointing out, as the aptly chosen title suggests, transformations and innovations in the development of the genre. [...] It is a volume that enriches and meaningfully extends discussion on how we can understand Midrash and its development in diverse literary forms and historical contexts.' Dr Helen Spurling, BAJS Review

• Note on Transliteration Introduction - Michael Fishbane and Joanna Weinberg Part I Origins and Subsurface Traditions1 Midrash and the Meaning of Scripture - Michael Fishbane 2 The Hand upon the Lord’s Throne: Targumic and Midrashic Perceptions of Exodus 17: 14--16 - Robert Hayward 3 Unwashed Hands: A Midrashic Controversy in the Gospel of Matthew - Piet van Boxel 4 ‘Tradunt Hebraei . . .’ The Problem of the Function and Reception of Jewish Midrash in Jerome - Alison Salvesen 5 Midrash in Syriac - Sebastian Brock Part II Later Midrashic Forms 6 Piyut and Midrash: Between Poetic Invention and Rabbinic Convention - Michael Fishbane 7 The Mourners of Zion and the Suffering Messiah: Pesikta rabati 34---Structure, Theology, and Content - Philip Alexander 8 The Toledot jeshu as Midrash - William Horbury 9 Storytelling as Midrashic Discourse in the Middle Ages - Eli Yassif 10 Performative Midrash in the Memory of Ashkenazi Martyrs - Ivan G. Marcus Part III Medieval Transformations 11 Midrash in a Leixical Key: The Arukh of Nathan ben Yehiel - Joanna Weinberg 12 Rashi’s Choice: The {H.}umash Commentary as Rewritten Midrash - Ivan G. Marcus 13 The Pendulum of Exegetical Methodology: From the Peshat to the Derash and Back - Sara Japhet 14 Midrashic Texts and Methods in Tosafist Torah Commentaries - Ephraim Kanarfogel 15 Zoharic Literature and Midrashic Temporality - Elliot Wolfson Part IV Early Modern and Modern Traditions 16 The Ingathering of Midrash Rabbah - Benjamin Williams 17 Midrash in Medieval and Early Modern Sermons - Marc Saperstein 18 Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague and his Attitude to the Aggadah - Jacob Elbaum 19 The Destruction of the Temple: A Yiddish Booklet for the Ninth of Av - Jacob Elbaum and Chava Turniansky 20 Midrash in Habad Hasidism - Naftali Loewenthal Notes on Contributors Index

Michael Fishbane is Professor of Jewish Studies in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, an elected fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research and holder of a Lifetime Award for Textual Studies from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture in America. Joanna Weinberg is Professor of Early Modern Jewish History and Rabbinics at the University of Oxford.

'Midrash Unbound is a significant and substantial contribution to the study of midrashic literature, method and process as manifested in diverse Jewish sources and select non-Jewish writings, from Late Antiquity to the Modern age. Fishbane and Weinberg have brought together an impressive array of scholars to explore the nature of Midrash in varied historical and geographical contexts, pointing out, as the aptly chosen title suggests, transformations and innovations in the development of the genre. [...] It is a volume that enriches and meaningfully extends discussion on how we can understand Midrash and its development in diverse literary forms and historical contexts.' Dr Helen Spurling, BAJS Review

• Note on Transliteration Introduction - Michael Fishbane and Joanna Weinberg Part I Origins and Subsurface Traditions1 Midrash and the Meaning of Scripture - Michael Fishbane 2 The Hand upon the Lord’s Throne: Targumic and Midrashic Perceptions of Exodus 17: 14--16 - Robert Hayward 3 Unwashed Hands: A Midrashic Controversy in the Gospel of Matthew - Piet van Boxel 4 ‘Tradunt Hebraei . . .’ The Problem of the Function and Reception of Jewish Midrash in Jerome - Alison Salvesen 5 Midrash in Syriac - Sebastian Brock Part II Later Midrashic Forms 6 Piyut and Midrash: Between Poetic Invention and Rabbinic Convention - Michael Fishbane 7 The Mourners of Zion and the Suffering Messiah: Pesikta rabati 34---Structure, Theology, and Content - Philip Alexander 8 The Toledot jeshu as Midrash - William Horbury 9 Storytelling as Midrashic Discourse in the Middle Ages - Eli Yassif 10 Performative Midrash in the Memory of Ashkenazi Martyrs - Ivan G. Marcus Part III Medieval Transformations 11 Midrash in a Leixical Key: The Arukh of Nathan ben Yehiel - Joanna Weinberg 12 Rashi’s Choice: The {H.}umash Commentary as Rewritten Midrash - Ivan G. Marcus 13 The Pendulum of Exegetical Methodology: From the Peshat to the Derash and Back - Sara Japhet 14 Midrashic Texts and Methods in Tosafist Torah Commentaries - Ephraim Kanarfogel 15 Zoharic Literature and Midrashic Temporality - Elliot Wolfson Part IV Early Modern and Modern Traditions 16 The Ingathering of Midrash Rabbah - Benjamin Williams 17 Midrash in Medieval and Early Modern Sermons - Marc Saperstein 18 Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague and his Attitude to the Aggadah - Jacob Elbaum 19 The Destruction of the Temple: A Yiddish Booklet for the Ninth of Av - Jacob Elbaum and Chava Turniansky 20 Midrash in Habad Hasidism - Naftali Loewenthal Notes on Contributors Index