Ten Measures of Beauty

Proceedings of the Midrash Section, Society of Biblical Literature

The contributions that comprise Ten Measures of Beauty, the 10th volume published by the Society of Biblical Literature’s Midrash Section, pertain to Sifra, Midrash Tadshe and Masora, Rabbi Meyuḥas ben Elijah (a biblical commentator), food and meals in midrash, and peace studies.

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Series: Judaism in Context34

Publication Date: Feb 28,2025

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Page Count: 146

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The contributions that comprise Ten Measures of Beauty, the 10^th volume published by the Society of Biblical Literature’s Midrash Section, pertain to Sifra, Midrash Tadshe and Masora, Rabbi Meyuḥas ben Elijah (a biblical commentator), food and meals in midrash, and peace studies.

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	Contributor	Biography
	W. DavidNelson	W. David Nelson served as the inaugural Rosenthal Associate Professor and Director of Jewish Studies at Texas Christian University and Brite Divinity School. He also served as the first Jewish Head of the Religious Studies and Philosophy Department at Groton School. He has served as both the President and Executive Director of the Society of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion and has published extensively in the field of Jewish Studies at the intersection of race, ethnicity, and religion
	RivkaUlmer	Rivka Ulmer is Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Bucknell University. Together with W. David Nelson, she serves as chair of the Midrash Section for the Society of Biblical Literature, and both have published widely in the interdisciplinary area of Jewish Studies, particularly in the field of Midrash.

Contributors ............................................................................ ix

Introduction ............................................................................. xi
Rivka Ulmer and W. David Nelson

The ReAuthorization of the Book of Leviticus in Third-Century Palestine ........................................................................... 1
Howard Apothaker

‘Superfluous Text’ in the Commentaries of Rabbi Meyuḥas ben Elijah .............................................................................. 37
Jonathan Jacobs

Food and Meals in Seder Eliyyahu Rabbah, chapters 3-5: The Integration of Ethics and Eschatology in Midrash .... 61
Jonathan Schofer

Bread for Heaven: Meals and Metalepsis in Exodus Rabbah ...... 73
Nicholas J. Schaser

A Numbers Game: Masorah, Mishnah, and Three Proto-Midrash Tadshe Traditions in Samuel ben Jacob’s Imaginative Equations ................................................................. 97
Robert Vanhoff

Peace and the Transmission of Midrashic Traditions: Substitutes for Sacrifice in Leviticus Rabbah 9:9 and Pereq Ha-Shalom........ 111
Jonathan Schofer

Index of Rabbinic Literature ................................................. 123

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Ten Measures of Beauty

Proceedings of the Midrash Section, Society of Biblical Literature