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Author Segal, Eliezer, author

Title Vol. 1 The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary Eliezer Segal
Edition Second edition
Published Atlanta : Scholars Press, 2020
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
2020

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Description 1 online resource (pages cm)
Series Brown judaic studies; 291
Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Introductory Remarks: The Babylonian Esther Midrash -- Prologue -- The Proems -- Ahasuerus -- Ahasuerus' Calculations -- The Feast -- Vashti
Summary "This work [vol. 1 of a three-volume work] ... consists of a translation and critical commentary to folios 10b-17a of the Babylonian Talmud Tractate Megillah. The material contained therein comprises the only full midrashic exposition of an entire biblical book to have been incorporated into the Babylonian Talmud, making it the only complete midrashic work that has come down to us from that prominent Jewish community and its rabbinic teachers."--Publisher's summary
Notes Description based on print version record
SUBJECT Bible. Esther -- Commentaries
Talmud. Megillah I, 10b-17a -- Criticism, Redaction
Bible. Esther fast
Subject Midrash -- History and criticism
Midrash
Genre/Form e-books.
Commentaries
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Livres numériques.
Form Electronic book
Author Project Muse. distributor.
LC no. 2019953423
ISBN 9781951498474
195149847X