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midrash

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈmɪdrɑːʃ/Sorted adhimrsStarts with MEnds with H0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A Rabbinic commentary on a text from the Hebrew Scripture.

Word origin

From Hebrew מִדְרָשׁ (midrásh, “Midrash”), in turn from Aramaic דרש.

Used in a sentence

  • Midrash was not a purely intellectual pursuit and study was never an end in itself: it had to inspire practical action in the world.
  • You could call the Gospels a midrash on the Hebrew Bible, the lives of the saints a midrash on the Christ story, the Koran a midrash on all of the above.
  • Northrop Frye called the novel “a kind of ‘midrash’ on the book of Job,” one that reimagines the opaque nature of divine justice as a labyrinthine modern bureaucracy.

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