Midrash, Hebrew, "interpretation", is a type of Jewish literature concerned with the interpretation of biblical texts.
Midrash, Psalm 25.4
The true nature of God is beyond any of his attributes as humanly conceived; cf. The Kaddish, pp. 53f.
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The Midrash, stemming from the same period as the Talmud, but more concerned with supplying context and elaboration of the Biblical text. Much legendary material is archived here.
Godfrey Higgins has discovered two references, one in the Midrashjoholeth and the other in the Abodazara (early Jewish commentaries on the Scriptures), to the effect that the surname of Joseph's family was Panther, ...
Christianity in Talmud and Midrash: R. Travers Herford: The Princeton Theological Review 4:412-414. [1906] (Minim, two powers) ...
In Midrash Petirat Mosheh, Azael is mentioned, along with Ouza as having come down from Heaven and been corrupted. Schwab in Vocabulaire de l'Angelologie calls Shamhazai and Azael the guardians of hidden treasures.
An important moment involving angels in Judaism is when the Midrash says that angels taught Abraham a new holy language: Hebrew.
7 in the Midrash, Bereshith Rabba, § 28 (towards the end):— ...
Dobin, J. C. 1977. To rule both day and night; astrology in the bible, midrash, talmud. Inner Traditions, NY.
Dummett, M. 1980. The game of tarot. Duckworth, London.
This is a passage from Jewish midrash in which Hannah is praying for a child at Shiloh: ...
He is mentioned in I Enoch and IV Ezra, where he "watches over thunder and terror." In the Midrash 1, Uriel is said to be one of the four guardians of God's throne. In The Book of Adam and Eve he presides over repentance.
That the motifs of Eve's cunningly jealous sexuality, Satan's compelling lubricity, and Divine Incest might not all derive from the Zohar, as de Pauly's 'forgeries'[23] had inclined Saurat to think, but from an older, even non-cabalistic, midrashim ...
 See also: World, Spirit, Christ, Mystic, Ritual
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