{"product_id":"the-midrash-on-proverbs-the-yale-judaica-series-9780300051070","title":"The Midrash on Proverbs (The Yale Judaica Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Midrash on Proverbs  a ninth-century collection of rabbinical commentary on the Book of Proverbs  is now available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Burton L. Visotzky here provides a lucid translation of the work from his annotated critical edition of the Hebrew text  Midrash Mishle. Midrash Mishle is a watershed in midrashic literature  as it marks the point at which broader forms of classical midrash on the Scriptures gave way to verse-by-verse commentary. It is unlike most earlier midrash in that it regularly pays attention to context  relates verses to each other  provides comments on apparently simple meanings of verses  and philologically considers the meaning of specific terms. At the same time  it resembles earlier midrash by considering narrative legendsoffering  for example  fanciful versions of Solomons meeting with the Queen of Sheba  the death of Moses  and Josephs encounter with his brothers. It also alludes to medieval Jewish law and custom  anti-Karaite polemic  and rabbinic mysticism (with its esoteric speculations on such subjects as the measurements of Gods body).Visotzkys volume illuminates all these subjects for the scholar and nonspecialist alike in a prose translation that mirrors the style of the original Midrash Mishle text. His introduction to the volume sets it in the wider context of Jewish hermeneutics of the Bible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45921750482997,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300051077","price":572.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300051070_9d0efcd6-dd31-4734-92c3-a153e5c363b3.jpg?v=1787599776","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-midrash-on-proverbs-the-yale-judaica-series-9780300051070","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}