Bloch

Question 1

Plusses 1

Answer 1

1. Move away from understanding Midrash as fable

argues to take midrash seriously with historical critical method

Question 2

Plusses 2

Answer 2

2. argue that it is a genre
   “explanatory genre tied closely tied to scripture in which the role of amplification is real but secondary and always remains subordinate to the primary religious end. (Hermenutics are secondary to message)

Question 3

Minuses—

Answer 3

everything else- misunderstandings of just about every major term and its significance.

1. both in terms of origins and social setting
2. calls midrash rabba a singular thing