Midrash Samuel
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
- Salomon Buber , Krakow 1893
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)