The Yalkut Shimoni is a compilation of rabbinic interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. There has been no research into the criteria used to select them, nor do we know whether the work was intended as a reference work for exegetical issues, for connecting biblical interpretations in the Talmud and Midrash, or for reforming the rabbinic tradition of interpretation. The translation in this volume is a first step toward answering these questions.

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Dagmar Börner-Klein, University of Düsseldorf, Germany , and Beat Zuber (+), Neudorf, Switzerland.