The Midrashic authors of the millenium following the era of the Mishnah, saw the Tanakh not as a document rather as a living testament of ongoing history, including their own post-Biblical world. They undertook a responsibility, both social and pedagogic, to derive lessons, to associate stories and to vivify Biblical characters in their own Byzantine, Sassanian, Islamic and Christian worlds. In this session, we will investigate a sampling of over 20 Midrashic/Aggadic texts to demonstrate this approach and to provide examples of various perspectives of this "ongoing dialogue with Mikra"

 

Midrashic Interpretation
Peshat and Drash
Yemei Iyun Study Days
Yemei Iyun be-Tanakh