Table of Contents

Preface

 Arnon Atzmon and Ronit Nikolsky



1 Let Our Rabbi Teach Us: An Introduction to Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature

 Ronit Nikolsky and Arnon Atzmon



Part 1: Bibliographical Survey

2 A Bibliographical Survey of Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Research: Past, Present, and Future

 Marc Bregman



Part 2: Textual Findings

3 Tanhuma as a Textual Martyr: On the Reception of Tanhuma Literature in Literary and Documentary Genizah Sources

 Moshe Lavee



4 The Transmission of Midrash Tanhuma in Ashkenaz as Reflected in Binding Fragments from Germany

 Andreas Lehnardt



Part 3: Language and Terminology

5 The Language of the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: The State of Research

 Yehonatan Wormser



6 “Rabbi Tanhuma Said”: A Code Phrase for the Quotation from Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature

 Gila Vachman



Part 4: Sources and Parallels

7 Pesikta in the Tanhuma: The Case of Pericope Shekalim

 Arnon Atzmon



8 A Tanhumaic Tradition on a Hasmonean King: Between Tannaitic Sources and the Babylonian Talmud

 Tal Ilan



Part 5: Adjacent and Later Literatures

9 The Affinity between the Lost Midrash Yelammedenu and Midrash Vayekhulu

 Amos Geula



10 The Provenance of Aggadat Bereshit: A Reassessment of the Origins of the Work as a “Tanhuma Satellite”

 Lieve Teugels



11 Tanhuma in Masquerade: Discovering the Tanhuma in the Latter Midrash Rabbah Texts

 Shalem Yahalom



Part 6: Cultural Context

12 Dramatic Dialogues in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Midrashim

 Dov Weiss



13 Meshalim on Election and Power: Two Examples in Tanhuma Buber

 Eric Ottenheijm



14 Joseph, Judah, and the Study of Emotions in Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature

 Ronit Nikolsky



Part 7: Textual Witnesses

15 Survey of Textual Witnesses of the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature

 Arnon Atzmon



Bibliography

Index of Biblical Sources

Index of Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature

Index of Sources

Index of Modern Scholars

General Index

About the Author

Ronit Nikolsky, Ph.D. (2004), The Hebrew University, is a senior lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies and Culture and Cognition at the University of Groningen. She has published numerous articles on various aspects of rabbinic culture, and edited various volumes dedicated to Jewish culture and cognition.



Arnon Atzmon, Ph.D. (2006), Bar-Ilan University, is a senior lecturer of Talmud and Midrash Studies at that university. He has published two books and many articles on rabbinic literature, including A Critical Edition of Midrash Esther Rabbah (with Prof. Joseph Tabory; Midrash Project of the Schechter Institute, 2014) and "My Children, Read this Passage Every Year": Composition and Meaning in Pesikta De-Rav Kahana (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2021).