Blurb:

Midrash is creative textual interpretation that draws on biblical texts. The word midrash can refer to two things: at its broadest, it denotes the genre of inquiries, speculations, imaginative exegesis, allegorical readings, line-by-line commentaries, and even new stories related to the Bible; its more specific meaning denotes the set of texts of this genre that gather and record rabbinic interpretations of the Bible from about 200 to 1000 CE.