General Studies: Amoraic Midrashim, Genesis Rabba

1. Albeck, Hanoch. "Einleitung und Register zum Bereschit Rabba [Introduction to Midrash Bereshit Rabbah, Hebrew]." In Midrasch Bereschit Rabbah mit kritischem Apparat und Kommentar , vol 3, pp. 1-3, ll-20. 3 vols. Berlin, 1912-1936; reprint, Jerusalem: Wahrman, 1965.
2. Barth, Lewis M. An Analysis of Vatican 30. Cincinnati: HUC, 1973.
3. Cohen, Norman J. Self, Struggle and Change: Family Conflict Stories in Genesis and Their Healing Insights for Our Lives. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights, 1995.
4. Ginzberg, Louis. The Legends of the Jews. 8 vols. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1900-1938. Vol 1, pp. 3-102.
5. Goldman, Edward A. "Parallel Texts in the Palestinian Talmud to Genesis Rabba." Rabbinic Thesis, HUC, 1969.
6. Heinemann, Joseph. "Happetihtot bemidreshei ha'aggadah: meqoran wetafqidan." Proceedings of the Fourth World Congress of Jewish Studies 2 (1969): 43-7.
7. ________. "The Proem in the Aggadic Midrashim - A Form Critical Study." Scripta Hierosolymitana 22 (1971): 100-22.
8. ________. "The Structure and Division of Genesis Rabbah [Hebrew]." Bar Ilan Annual 9 (1972): 279-89.
9. Herr, Moshe David. "Genesis Rabbah." In Encyclopedia Judaica, 7:399-401. Jerusalem: Keter, 1972.
10. Marmorstein, Arthur. "The Introduction of R. Hoshaya to the First Chapter of Genesis Rabba." In Louis Ginzberg Jubilee Volume on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, edited by Marx, Alexander and Saul Lieberman, Shalom Spiegel and Solomon Zeitlin, 247-52. New York: American Academy for Jewish Research, 1945.
11. Mihaly, Eugene. A Song to Creation. Cincinnati: HUC, 1975.
12. Odeberg, Hugo. The Aramaic Portions of Bereshit Rabba. Lund, 1939.
13. Stein, Edmund. "Die homiletsche Peroratio im Midrasch." HUCA 8-9 (1931-1932): 353-71.
14. Strack, Hermann L., revised by Gunter Stemberger. Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash. Translated by Markus Bockmuehl. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1991. [US edition: Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992; 2nd english edition: Edinburgh: T & T Clark and Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996.] Originally published as Einleitung in Talmud Und Midrasch. Munich: Beck, 1982. "PART Three: Midrashim, Section III [The Oldest Exegetical Midrashim]." 300-312; 2nd edition, 276-287.
15. Theodor, Julius. "The Earliest Exegetical Midrashim-Bereshit Rabbah" In Jewish Encyclopedia, 8:557-9. 1901-1906.

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