Carmi Sheli

This volume contains fifteen articles many in Hebrew by leading scholars. The articles cover a broad range of subjects from an analysis of biblical narratives as expounded in the midrash and by medieval commentators through a discussion of Maimonides' attitude towards midrash and an analysis of talmudic aggadah as expounded by oriental scholars to polemics concerning the attitude to aggadah in the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries and culminating with an analysis of interpretation of aggadah by latter-day talmudic scholars. There are also articles about the essence of aggadah its literary conventions and its relation to law and two articles which deal with a passage in the Passover Haggadah. The participants include: E. Eizenman N. Ilan G. Blidstein Y. Blau M. Bregman A. Grossman H. Davidson C. Horowitz O. Viskind-Elper H. Mak A. Atzmon A. Kadari A. Rozenak M. Shmidman and J. Tabory.