Midrash Shmuel (aggadah)

Midrash Samuel is a Midrash called, probably in the 11th century in Palestine aggadic authored commentary on the Book of Samuel.

Characteristics

The frequently cited by Rashi and Maimonides comment contains 32 sections, of which 24 for the first and only 8 for the second book of Samuel.

The basic elements of the text, which draws of Palestine ( never from the Babylonian ) Talmud and Midrashim is older, a few centuries older, but was later revised ( proved among others by later citations as Aggadat Shmuel ).

Textual witnesses

  • MS Parma 563 ( single manuscript, very buggy )
  • Fragments in the Cairo Geniza ( ed. ZM Rabinovitz, Ginze ... Midrash, Tel Aviv 1976, varying widely text )
  • Another fragment in N. Alloni, Geniza fragment 77, Jerusalem 1973

First edition

  • Konstantin Opel 1517

Critical Edition

Initial translation

  • Wishes, Israel teaching halls, Volume V., Leipzig 1910
Leopold Zunz
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