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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.
Source: wiktionary
Midrash was not a purely intellectual pursuit and study was never an end in itself: it had to inspire practical action in the world.
Source: wiktionary
You could call the Gospels a midrash on the Hebrew Bible, the lives of the saints a midrash on the Christ story, the Koran a midrash on all of the above.
Source: wiktionary
Northrop Frye called the novel “a kind of ‘midrash’ on the book of Job,” one that reimagines the opaque nature of divine justice as a labyrinthine modern bureaucracy.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include anthology, biblical exegesis, collection, compilation, rabbinic interpretation.
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