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Episode 105: Wil Gafney - Womanist Midrash (REISSUE)

The Bible For Normal People

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Theology Is Doing With an Adjective, Womenest Mid Rosh

Alice Altschuler: Womenest mid rosh is a term that comes from classical jewish exegesis. She says it means, literally, to interpret the biblical text. In many forms of judaism, all subsequent interpretive practices can be called midrash. But there's another sense to the term that i think has become problematic," she says.

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