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    Genesis Rabbah (Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית רַבָּה, romanized: Bərēšīṯ Rabbā) is a religious text from Judaism's classical period, probably written between 300...
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    humiliation, although the Genesis Rabbah portrays her as boastful and unashamed in regard to the pregnancy itself. Both the Genesis Rabbah and Talmud state that...
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    De-Rabbi Eliezer 36 Genesis Rabbah 41:2 Genesis Rabbah 45:2 Genesis Rabbah 45:9. Rosh Hashanah 16b Genesis Rabbah 45:7. Genesis Rabbah 47:3 Bava Metzia 87a;...
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    Judah (son of Jacob) (category Book of Genesis people)
    (on Genesis 48:22) Midrash Vayissa'u Book of Jubilees 34:1-9 Testament of Judah 3-7 Midrash Genesis Rabbah 95:1; Midrash Tanhuma Genesis Rabbah 85:4...
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    Melchizedek (category Book of Genesis people)
    called Jerusalem "Salem." (Genesis Rabbah 56:10.) The Rabbis said that Melchizedek instructed Abram in the Torah. (Genesis Rabbah 43:6.) Rabbi Eleazar said...
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    Eve (category Book of Genesis people)
    origin for this etymological hypothesis is the rabbinic pun present in Genesis Rabbah 20:11, utilizing the similarity between Heb. Ḥawwāh and Aram. ḥiwyāʾ...
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    Josephus, in the Talmud, the Midrash, the Targum on the Torah, the Genesis Rabbah, and various other writings of Jewish theologians and philosophers....
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    Rebecca (category Book of Genesis people)
    Genesis 25:23. Strong's Concordance 6215, 6213. Rashi on Genesis 50:50. Strong's Concordance 3290, 6117. Genesis 25:26. Genesis Rabbah 63:10. Genesis...
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    jealousy, light-fingered and gadabout" (Genesis Rabbah 18:2). A similar set of charges appears in Genesis Rabbah 17:8, according to which Eve's creation...
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    Genesis Rabbah l.c. Bava Batra 15b Genesis Rabbah 58:3, 61:4; compare Yalkut Shimoni Sotah 35a Job 1:6, 2:1 Leviticus Rabbah 17:4 Genesis Rabbah 24:4 Exodus...
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