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Midrash

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Midrash

Medieval Hebrew commentaries on the Hebrew Bible, in the form of sermons, in which allegory and legendary illustration are used. They were compiled mainly in Palestine between AD 400 and 1200, and form part of the Haggadah, the narrative tradition of the Talmud.
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