Jewish Interpretation of the Bible

TL;DR: Boyarin this article proposes a new theory of midrash that rests in part on an understanding of the heterogeneity of the biblical text and the constraining force of rabbinic ideology on the production of mid-rash.

TL;DR: The last of the commentaries to be rendered into English is as discussed by the authors, where the author succeeds in injecting a sense of dramatic excitement into his interpretations, without neglecting the scientific data provided by archaeological and philological research.