Midrash

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A Rabbinic commentary on a text from the Hebrew Scripture.
    — In other stories of the midrashim, Adam, in penance for his fall, abstains from sexuality for 130 years, but he is not able to control his nocturnal emissions; in his dream state female spirits, the succubae, come and have intercourse with him, and with Adam's seed they give birth to demons.
  2. The Rabbinic technique or tradition of such exegesis.
    — Midrash was not a purely intellectual pursuit and study was never an end in itself: it had to inspire practical action in the world.

词形变化

Midrashim plural Midrashot plural Midrashoth plural midrash alternative

词源

From Hebrew מִדְרָשׁ (midrásh, “Midrash”), in turn from Aramaic דרש.
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