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Line 4: '''''Midrash''''' ({{IPAc-en\|ˈ\|m\|ɪ\|d\|r\|ɑː\|ʃ}};<ref name=RandomHouse>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/midrash "midrash"] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071602/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/midrash \|date=2016-03-04 }}. ''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''.</ref> {{lang-he\|מִדְרָשׁ}}; {{abbr\|pl.\|plural}} {{lang\|he\|מִדְרָשִׁים}} {{transliteration\|he\|midrashim}} or {{Script/Hebrew\|מִדְרָשׁוֹת}} ''midrashot'') is expansive [[Judaism\|Jewish]] [[Bible\|Biblical]] [[exegesis]]<ref>{{Cite web \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e-CPBAAAQBAJ&dq=%22simply+biblical+exegesis%22&pg=PR11 \|title=Jacob Neusner, ''What Is Midrash'' (Wipf and Stock 2014), p. xi \|access-date=2023-03-15 \|archive-date=2023-06-27 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627061914/https://books.google.com/books?id=e-CPBAAAQBAJ&dq=%22simply+biblical+exegesis%22&pg=PR11 \|url-status=live }}</ref> using a rabbinic mode of interpretation prominent in the [[Talmud]]. The word itself means "textual interpretation", "study", or "[[exegesis]]",<ref>[http://www.tyndalearchive.com/TABS/Jastrow//] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191118021026/http://www.tyndalearchive.com/TABS/Jastrow/ \|date=2019-11-18 }}[[Marcus Jastrow]]<span>, </span>''Dictionary of Targumim, Talmud and Midrashic Literature''<span>, p. 735</span></ref> derived from the root verb {{transliteration\|he\|darash}} ({{lang\|he\|דָּרַשׁ‎}}), which means "resort to, seek, seek with care, enquire, require", forms of which appear frequently in the [[Hebrew Bible]]. Midrash and rabbinic readings "discern value in texts, words, and letters, as potential revelatory spaces", ~~writes~~according to the Hebrew scholar [[Wilda Gafney]]., "They reimagine dominant narratival readings while crafting new ones to stand alongside—not replace—former readings. Midrash also asks questions of the text; sometimes it provides answers, sometimes it leaves the reader to answer the questions".<ref>{{Cite book \|title=Womanist Midrash : a reintroduction to the women of the Torah and the throne \|author=Gafney, Wilda \|isbn=9780664239039 \|edition= First \|location=Louisville, Kentucky \|oclc=988864539 \|year = 2017}}</ref> Vanessa Lovelace defines midrash as "a Jewish mode of interpretation that not only engages the words of the text, behind the text, and beyond the text, but also focuses on each letter, and the words left unsaid by each line".<ref name="Lovelace 212–215">{{Cite journal \|last=Lovelace \|first=Vanessa \|date=2018-09-11 \|title=Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne, written by Wilda C. Gafney \|journal=Horizons in Biblical Theology \|language=en \|volume=40 \|issue=2 \|pages=212–215 \|doi=10.1163/18712207-12341379 \|s2cid=171667828 \|issn=0195-9085}}</ref> An example of a midrashic interpretation: