Today, I begin a three-part series with my adult education class on Jewish midrash at Trinity Episcopal Church. The topics will vary with the first on the ways earlier Jewish rabbis considered revelation in their commentary on scripture.
Unlike the traditions of reading canon in the Christian Church, which many Christians experience as a closed body of texts (but rarely the great commentaries of their traditions), Jewish believers are accustomed to reading the opinions of the rabbis as a part of their experience of Torah and even more broadly Tanakh. This also raises the question of authority, another topic, which is much more loosely constrained, although there are some sects that accept certain writings with greater authority than others.
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