midrashistn.
/ˈmɪdraʃɪst/, /ˈmɪdrʌʃɪst/, U.S. /ˈmɪˌdrɑʃɪst/ Judaism.
A person who wrote Midrashim.
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1975 Way Suppl. No. 25. 83 Meditation upon the OT with a view to giving it a contemporary application is sometimes designated Midrash. Certainly the rabbinic midrashists of the post-Christian era attempted to do just that.
1986 Times 20 Dec. 18/5 The midrashist had a text in front of him which he elaborated often in a most fanciful way.
1997 Jewish Advocate (Nexis) 3 Jan. 20 Perhaps the biggest problem is that the classical midrashists wrote in a time of faith in God and the Torah.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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