General Studies: Halakhic Midrashim

1. Albeck, Hanoch. Untersuchungen über die halachischen Midraschim. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 1927.
2. Epstein, Jacob N. Introduction to Tannaitic Literature: Mishna, Tosephta and Halakhic Midrashim [Hebrew]. Tel Aviv: Magnes Press, 1957.
3. Guttmann, Alexander. Rabbinic Judaism in the Making: A Chapter in the History of the Halakhah From Ezra to Judah I. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1970.
4. Harris, Jay M. "How Do We Know This?": Midrash and the Fragmentation of Modern Judaism. Albany: SUNY Press, 1994.
5. Herr, Moshe David. "Midreshei Halakhah" in Encyclopaedia Judaica, 11:1522-3. Jerusalem: Keter, 1972.
6. ________. "Midrash Tanaaim" in Encyclopaedia Judaica, 11:1518-9. Jerusalem: Keter, 1972.
7. Hoffmann, David. Zur Einleitung in die halachischen Midrashim. Originally published as Beilage zum Jahresbericht des Rabbiner-Seminars zu Berlin. Berlin: M. Driesner, 1886-1887. Reprint, n.d.
8. Lauterbach, Jacob Z. "Midrash Halakah" in Jewish Encyclopedia, 8:569-72. 1901-1906.
9. Lightstone, J. N. "Form As Meaning in Halakhic Midrash. A Programmatic Statement." Semeia 27 (1983): 24-35.
10. Melamed, Ezra Z. The Halakhic Midrashim in the Babylonian Talmud [Hebrew]. Jerusalem: , 1943.
11. ________. The Relationship Between the Halakhic Midrashim and the Mishnah and Tosefta [Hebrew]. Jerusalem: , 1967.
12. Moore, George Foot.Judaism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1927.
13. ________. "The Sources." in Judaism in the Age of the Tannaim, 1:125-60. Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 1927.
14. Neusner, Jacob. The Canonical History of Ideas: The Place of the So-Called Tannaite Midrashim. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.
15. 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 II [The Halakhic Midrashim]." 269- 299; 2nd edition, 247-275.
16. Theodor, Julius. "Midrash Haggadah in the Tannaitic Midrashim" in Jewish Encyclopedia, 8:554-7. 1901-1906.
17. Towner, W. S. "Halachic Literary Patterns and Types; History and Affinity with New Testament Literature." Jewish Quarterly Review 74 (1983): 46-60.

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