List of Contributors .................................................................. ix
Introduction ............................................................................. xi
1. Midrash as Masorah: God’s Gematria Lesson for Moses and
the Scribes who Transmitted It .......................................... 1
ROBERT VANHOFF
2. The Red Cow: The Qurʾan and the Midrash ......................... 13
ABDULLA GALADARI
3. The Rabbinization of the Enemy: Villains in the Service of the
Pharisees ......................................................................... 51
GILAD ELBOM
4. The Death of Moses, and the Understanding of Deuteronomy,
in Deuteronomy Rabbah 11:10 ......................................... 59
JONATHAN SCHOFER
5. Emotional Discourse in Rabbinic Literature ............................ 85
RONIT NIKOLSKY
6. A Yelammedenu Unit in Pesiqta Rabbati and Midrash Tanḥuma:
A Text Linguistic Analysis .................................................... 109
RIVKA ULMER