Lexicographical Neighbors of Midrashoth
Literary usage of Midrashoth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England by Cotton Mather, Thomas Robbins (1853)
"Whether the churches of New- England have been duely careful or no, about their
other schools, they have not been altogether careless about their midrashoth ..."
2. Religion and the Future Life: The Development of the Belief in Life After Death by Elias Hershey Sneath, Franz Boas (1922)
"This may seem a long digression, but I do not know how to prepare you otherwise
for the proper understanding of the midrashoth of the Synoptic writers, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"But, whatever were the likings or dislikings of the Jews for the midrashoth, it
is certain that these traditions were ..."
4. Seminary Addresses and Other Papers by Solomon Schechter (1915)
"... tradition and formed the ideal for thousands of years after him in all Jewish
colleges and academies or, as they were called in Hebrew, Botte midrashoth ..."
5. New England and New France: Contrasts and Parallels in Colonial History by James Douglas (1913)
"... about their other schools, they have not been altogether careless about their
midrashoth (divinity schools); and it is well for them that they have not. ..."
6. The Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review by Jonas M. Libbey, John Forsyth, Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater, Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood (1876)
"There were among the Jews authorized individual teachers of great eminence, who
had their midrashoth, or divinity schools, in which they expounded the law ..."
7. American Annals of Education by W. C. Woolbridge (1839)
"The ' midrashoth' were a kind of divinity schools, in which the law was expounded.
Such were the schools of Hillel and Gamaliel; also, those which were ..."
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