The Origins of Midrash: from teaching to text
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Toward a Legal-Instructional Model of midrash -- The Scribe (sofer) in the Second Temple Period -- Doresh ha-torah and midrash torah: Teaching and Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- The Pharisees: Exegetes of the Laws -- The Rabbinic Sage (ḥakham) and t...