Capitolo 24
as recently as the tenth one or the eleventh century of the current era.
Midrash (the "Study", "Investigation") it was in the first example a _Explanation
of the Scriptures_. This explanation is the clear one, natural often
the exposure of the text, and it strengthens rules of behavior both ethical
and ritual. The historians and moral traditions that grew in clusters round
the accidents and characters of the Bible received soon a more vivid
putting. The poetic sense of the Rabbis was expressed in an enormous and
the beautiful order of legendary sums to the Bible but the sums
you/he/she is conceived with a moral purpose to always give point to a preacher,
homily or to inhale the imagination of the public with more noble
desires. Besides the explanatory being, the Midrash is, therefore, didactic
and poetic, the moral one being brought in the semblance of a _narrative_,
amplifying and developing the contents of Sacred writings. The Midrash gives
the results of that to cross deep of the Sacred writings that became second
nature with the Hebrews, and it also represents the changes and expansions
of ethical and theological ideals as applied to a change and crescendo
life.
From another point of view, also the Midrash is a poetic literature.
Its function as a kind of the homiletics_ of _popular did him/it necessary to
appeals to the emotions. In his warm and living question of abstract
the ends daily truth, in his/her intensification of answer and flood of hope of
God's proximity to Israel, in his/her idealization of the past and
future of the Hebrews, it assumed the art of the poet in essence, although not in
form. You will see later that in another sense the Midrash is a
poetic literature, using the to know about the people, the parable the
proverb, the allegory and the fable and using them in often the
language of poetry.
The greatest Midrash is the actual relationship of sermons and addresses of the
Tannaite grows old; the last one is entirely a medieval compilation from existing
sources. The jobs to that the name Midrash is applied it is the