Midrash Samuel

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Midrash Samuel is a midrash called an aggadic commentary on the book of Samuel , probably written in Palestine in the 11th century .

Characteristic

The commentary, often cited by Rashi and Maimonides , contains 32 sections, 24 of which are on the first and only 8 on the second book of Samuel .

The basic stock of the text, which draws from the Palestinian (never from the Babylonian) Talmud and older Midrashim, is a few centuries older, but was later revised (proven, among other things, by later quotations as Aggadat Shmuel ).

Text witnesses

  • MS Parma 563 (only manuscript, very incorrect)
  • Fragments in the Cairo Geniza (ed. ZM Rabinovitz, Ginzé Midrash ... , Tel Aviv 1976, very different text)
  • another fragment in N. Alloni, Geniza Fragments 77, Jerusalem 1973

First printing

  • Constantinople 1517

Critical edition

First translation

  • Wishes, Israels Lehrhallen , Volume V., Leipzig 1910

literature

  • Leopold Zunz , Divine Service Lectures , 281 f., Hildesheim 1966
  • Encyclopaedia Judaica XI, 1517 f., Jerusalem 1971
  • M. Higger, Beraitoth in Midrash Samuel ... , in: Talpioth 5, 3–4, 1952 (Hebrew)