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midrashim on all the 150 eight martyrs of Hadrian's results provide much valuable
Psalms, is the newest of the persecution (9.13); Rabbi Si- material for further study and
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Rabbi William G. Braude, of Romans, lived for 13 years in edition of the Midrash Tehil-
a
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(17.13);
the
abundance
Providehce, R.I., is the trans-
lim and to the first — Con-
lator of the new text from the at the table of Rabbi Judah stantinople, 1512 — . published
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that had arisen among scholars and many other interesting private devotion and the chief
over the dating of some of the items.
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A wealth of information is
Events in Jewish Biblical Psalms deserves attention and
packed into the appended notes and post-Biblical history and study."
and the indexes. Rabbi Braude legends also are alluded to in
Rabbi Braude asesrts that
has applied excellent research this Midrash. There are fre- his goal was • "to achieve a
skill to the task of translating quent references to Rome and readable text . . . a transla-
"The Midrash on Psalms" and Romans. The Midrash relates tion, not a paraphrase." His
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corporated in 1,200 pages of when the Levites were ordered subjects and names.
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them. Psalm 130 is evaluated
Nevertheless, as in all other
"Midrash Tehillim is a me- as follows:
Midrashim, the overwhelming lange of many things. It speaks
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Tehillim goes back to the Tal- and kings, ranging as it does Thee, 0 Lord (Ps. 130:1). R.
mudic period."
from the radishes and cucum- Jose ben Hanina said in the i
As implied in the name, Mid- bers served at the table of a name of R. Eliezer ben Jacob:
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This is one of the shortest
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lim, occupying a half page in
the translation by Rabbi
Braude. Psalm 137 occupies
more than eight pages and
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taries, the first of the 11 para-
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Rabbi Braude has added a
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Midrash Tehillim Translated Into English from
Hebrew, Aramaic , Scholarly Work by Rabbi Braude