Introduction ...................................................................................... 1
W. DAVID NELSON and RIVKA ULMER
‘Every Man According to his Blessing’: The Interpretation of
Reuben and Issachar in Genesis Rabbah .................................. 7
AVRAM RICHARD SHANNON
Exodus Rabbah and the Aggadic Response to Biblical Law: The
Ten Commandments and the Covenant Code ........................ 25
JONATHAN SCHOFER
Natural Law and the Statutes of Israel: Rabbinic Legal Discourse
in Leviticus Rabbah ................................................................. 51
NICHOLAS J. SCHASER
Towards a New Understanding of the Defining Features of
Rabbinic Midrash ................................................................... 71
MATTHEW GOLDSTONE
Authorship and Authority: Patterns of Change in Seder Eliyahu,
Pirke De Rabbi Eliezer and the Alphabet of Ben Sira in their
Geonic and Early Islamicate Contexts ..................................... 99
LENNART LEHMHAUS
Retrospection as an Exegetical Devise in Rashbam’s Torah
Commentary ........................................................................... 151
JONATHAN JACOBS
A Necessary Yod: How Masorah and Midrash Helped to Clarify
the Canon .............................................................................. 177
ROBERT VANHOFF