This volume contains selected proceedings of the Midrash Section sessions convened during the 2012-2014 meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature. It is comprised of contributions by leading and emerging scholars that share a common focus on Rabbinic biblical interpretation as it intersects with a range of biblical texts and associated fields of study, including: Jewish legal literature; Hellenistic Judaism; post-biblical interpretation; biblical commentary; liturgical studies; and, cultural studies.

• Table of Contents (page 5)
• Introduction (page 7)
• 1. Ancient Jewish and Christian Exegeses of the 'Curse of Ham': Divergent Strategies against the Background of Ancient Views on Slavery (Ilaria Ramelli) (page 13)
• 2. Jacob's Double: A Reduplicative Confabulation of Post-Biblical Literature (Steven Daniel Sacks) (page 65)
• 3. The Holy of Holies or the Holiest? Rabbi Akiva's Characterization of Song of Songs in Mishnah Yadayim 3:5 (Jonathan Kaplan) (page 75)
• 4. The Spirit among the Sages: Seder Olam, the End of Prophecy, and Sagely Illumination (Nehemia Polen) (page 95)
• 5. Blessed be He, Who Remembered the Earlier Deeds and Overlooks the Later - Prayer, Benedictions, and Liturgy in the New Rhetoric Garb of Late Midrashic Traditions (Lennart Lehmhaus) (page 107)
• 6. The Role of Small Forms in Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer (Katharina Keim) (page 153)
• 7. Inner-Biblical Exegesis in Rashbam's Commentary on Qohelet (Jonathan Jacobs) (page 179)
• Untitled (page 1)