midrash

See also: Midrash

English

Noun

midrash (plural midrashim or midrashot or midrashoth)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Midrash
    • 2016 June, Judith Shulevitz, “The Brontës’ Secret”, in The Atlantic‎:
      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.
    • 2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, quoting Northrop Frye, chapter 12, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN:
      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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