Tanhuma midrashim

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The Tanhuma midrashim are a collection of rabbinic homiletic teachings on the Pentateuch, characterized by sermonic expositions, moral lessons, and aggadic interpretations attributed to early Jewish sages.

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instanceOf Jewish religious text
homiletic commentary
midrashic work
rabbinic literature
attributedTo early Jewish sages
citedIn medieval Jewish commentaries
contains aggadic interpretations
homilies
moral teachings
sermons
developedFrom earlier tannaitic traditions
emphasizes ethical instruction
moral exhortation
religious piety
focusesOn parashot
weekly Torah portions
genre aggadic midrash
homiletic midrash
hasPart Midrash Tanhuma NERFINISHED
Yelammedenu midrash NERFINISHED
hasVariant Tanhuma Buber edition NERFINISHED
standard printed Tanhuma
influenced Ashkenazic homiletic literature
later medieval Jewish preaching
language Hebrew
literaryForm biblical exegesis
rabbinic discourse
mainSubject Pentateuch NERFINISHED
Torah NERFINISHED
periodOfComposition late antiquity
preservedIn early printed editions
manuscripts
relatedWork Midrash Rabbah NERFINISHED
Pesikta de-Rav Kahana NERFINISHED
Yalkut Shimoni NERFINISHED
religiousTradition Judaism
scholarlyTopic history of midrash
late antique Judaism
rabbinic homiletics
structureCharacteristic proem-based homily
sermonic exposition
traditionallyAttributedTo Rabbi Tanhuma bar Abba NERFINISHED
usedFor Torah study
ethical instruction in Jewish communities
synagogue preaching
uses aggadah
halakhic material

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Pesikta de-Rav Kahana relatedWork Tanhuma midrashim
Tanchuma hasAlternativeName Tanhuma midrashim
this entity surface form: Midrash Tanchuma
Tanchuma hasAlternativeName Tanhuma midrashim
this entity surface form: Midrash Tanhuma
Tanchuma hasVersion Tanhuma midrashim
this entity surface form: Midrash Tanchuma Buber edition
Tanchuma hasVersion Tanhuma midrashim
this entity surface form: Printed (standard) Midrash Tanchuma