Exégesis y homilética en cantar de los cantares Rabba

Abstract

Besides the known distribution in exegetical midrashim and homiletical midrashim, wich rests on a criterion od pure formal structure, this paper pretends to analize the midrashic materials themselves wether as exegetical ones, having their Sitz im Leben in the bet-midrash, other as homiletical ones, having it in the bet-kneset. From this point of view we analize two of the four Proems which precede the standard text of Song of Songs Rabbah. There is also a brief list of the derash patterns in this Midrash.