Midrash HaGadol

Midrash ha - gadol ("the Great Midrash ", abbreviated MHG ) is the name for a medieval collection of midrashim on the five books of the Torah. The final editing was not before the end of the 13th century, possibly around 1350 instead. The work is now Amram al - Adani attributed to David bar of Aden.

It contains both halachic and Haggadic midrashim, excerpts of older Midraschsammlungen and rabbinic works of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Alfasi, Maimonides and others. Text and the history of ideas, it is of great value, since otherwise lost texts such as the Mechilta of Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai could be reconstructed from him. The editor assigns the material after the annual reading cycle and opens each part of the week with a proem in rhyming verse. In addition, the Midrash ha - gadol is valuable for the study of the texts of Maimonides, as it contains numerous sources to which Maimonides relied that are otherwise unknown, however. The editor knew and used contrary to previous assumptions including Mechilta and Sifre.

In Yemen, to the point many manuscripts as origin, became the Midrash ha - gadol a particularly prominent position and repressed by other Midrashim that were there previously in use. After Europe, the text came in manuscript form in 1878, was sold to the Royal Library in Berlin and first used by Solomon Schechter in his edition of Avot de - Rabbi Nathan, 1887.

Text output

  • Solomon Schechter: Midrash Hag - gadol forming a collection of ancient Rabbinic homilies to the Pentateuch. Cambridge 1902 ( first edition, incomplete)
  • David Hoffmann: Midrash ha - Gadol to the Book of Exodus. Itzkowski, Berlin 1913
  • Nahum Rabinowitz Elijjāhū: Midras hag Gadol 'al ḥamišša ḥumšē Torah, being a compilation of halakic and Haggadic passages to the Pentateuch taken from ancient and medieval Rabbinic sources: Midrash Leviticus Haggadol. New York 1932
  • Solomon fish: Midrash haggadol on the Pentateuch, Numbers. London 1940
  • Critical Jerusalem Issue: Mordekhai Margaliyot: Midrash Haggadol. Genesis. Jerusalem 2 vols 1947, Reprint 1967
  • Mordekhai Margaliyot: Midrash Haggadol. Exodus. Jerusalem in 1956, reprint 1967
  • Adin Steinsaltz: Midrash HaGadol. Sefer Wajjiqra. Jerusalem 1975
  • Zvi Meir Rabinowitz: Midrash Haggadol. Numbers. Jerusalem in 1957, reprint 1967
  • Solomon fish: Midrash Haggadol. Deuteronomy. Jerusalem 1972
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