Other Publications
Publications
“Past and Present in Midrashic Literature,”
Hebrew Annual
Review 2 (l978), pp. 45-59
“Another Reference to ‘A Teacher of Righteousness’ in Midrashic
Literature,”
Revue de Qumran 37:10 (l979), pp. 97-100
“Joseph Heinemann’s Studies on the Aggadah,”
Immanuel 9 (l979),
- 58-62
“The Triennial Haftarot and the Perorations of the Midrashic
Homilies,”
Journal of Jewish Studies 32:1 (l981), pp. 74-84
“Circular Proems and Proems Beginning with the Formula ‘Zo hi
shene’emra beruah haq-qodesh'”,
Studies in Aggadah, Targum and
Jewish Liturgy in Memory of Joseph Heinemann (Jerusalem, l981),
- 34-51 [Hebrew]
“The Depiction of the Ram in the Aqedah Mosaic at Beit Alpha,”
Tarbiz 51 (l982), pp. 306-309 [Hebrew]
“The Darshan: Preacher and Teacher of Talmudic Times,”
The
Melton Journal (The Jewish Theological Seminary, New York) 14
(l982), pp. 3, 19, 26
“An Early Fragment of Avot deRabbi Natan from a Scroll,”
Tarbiz
52 (l983), pp. 201-222 [Hebrew]
“The Scales are not ‘Balanced’ (A Textcritical Note to Midrash
Tanhuma, Ki Tisa, 34),”
Tarbiz 53 (1984), pp. 289-292 [Hebrew]
“El Darshan: Predicador y Maestro de la Epoca Talmudica,”
Maj’shavot (Buenos Aires) 24:4 (l985), pp. 51-57
“Toward a Textcritical Approach to the Tanhuma-Yelamdenu
Midrashim,”
Tarbiz 54 (l985), pp. 289-292 [Hebrew]
“The Nature of the Aggadah” by Joseph Heinemann (translated by
Marc Bregman),
Midrash and Literature, ed. G. Hartmann and S.
Budick (Yale University Press, New Haven, l986), pp. 41-55
“Textual Witnesses of the Tanhuma-Yelamdenu Midrashim”,
Procedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies,
Volume II: Jewish Thought and Literature (Jerusalem, l986), pp.
49-56 [Hebrew]
“Stratigraphic Analysis of a Selected Pericope from the
Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Midrashim”,
Proceedings of the Tenth
Congress of Jewish Studies, Division C, Vol. I: Jewish Thought
and Literature (Jerusalem, 1990), pp. 117-124 [Hebrew]
“The Parable of the Lame and the Blind — Epiphanius’ Quotation
from an Apocryphon of Ezekiel”,
Journal of Theological Studies
42:1 (1991), pp. 125-138. Reprinted in:
The Apocryphal Ezekiel,
edited by Michael E. Stone,
et al., (SBL, Atlanta, 2000)
“Early Sources and Traditions in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu
Midrashim”,
Tarbiz 60 (1991), pp. 269-274 [Hebrew]
“The Art of Retelling”,
The Sagarin Review 4 (1994), pp. 177-
181 (Reprinted in
The Jerusalem Post and in
Jewish Book Annual
53 (1995-1996), pp. 177-182).
The Four Who Entered Paradise — Introduction and Commentary
(Jason Aronson, Northvale, NJ, 1995).
“The Riddle of the Ram in Genesis Chapter 22: Jewish-Christian
Contacts in Late Antiquity”,
The Sacrifice of Isaac in the
Three Monotheistic Religions, ed. Frederic Manns, Studium
Biblicum Franciscanum, Analecta 41 (Jerusalem: Franciscan
Printing Press, 1995), pp. 127-145, Figures 1-8
The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, edited by R. J.
Zwi Werblowsky and Geoffrey Wigoder (Oxford and New York,
Oxford University Press, 1997) articles on: “Aggadat Esther”,
“Alphabet of Rabbi Akiva”, “Darshan”, “Deuteronomy Rabbah”,
“Moshe Ha-Darshan”, “Numbers Rabbah”, “Proverbs, Midrash”,
“Ruth Rabbah”, “Tanhuma-Yelammedenu”, “Yalqut Ha-Makhiri”,
“Yelammedenu”
Serah bat Asher: Biblical Origins, Ancient Aggadah and
Contemporary Folklore, The Bilgray Lectureship, booklet
published and distrubuted by the University of Arizona, 1997
[reprinted in
New Harvest – Jewish Writing in St. Louis 1998-2005,
Edited by Howard Schwartz and Barbara Raznick (St. Louis: The Brodsky Library Press, 2005), pp.341-353.]
“The Four Who Entered Paradise: Evolution of a Talmudic Tale”,
First Harvest (1997), pp. 437-442
“Midrash Rabbah and the Medieval Collector Mentality”,
Prooftexts 17 (1997),
- 63-76 [reprinted in The Anthology in Jewish Literature, edited by David Stern (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2004), pp. 196-208]
“Pseudepigraphy in Rabbinic Literature”,
Pseudepigraphic Perspectives:
The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha in Light of the Dead Sea Scroll,
edited by Esther G. Chazon and Michael Stone, [Proceedings of the
International Symposium of the Orion Center, 1997] (Brill, Leiden, 1999),
- 27-41
“Seeing with the Sages: Midrash as Visualization in the Legends of the
Aqedah,
Agendas for the Study of Midrash in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Marc Lee
Raphael (The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, 1999), pp. 84-100
Het Raadsel van de Ram Christelijke Invloed op het Mozaïek tet Beit Alfa? [Booklet]
Gesprekken in Israël – Nes Ammim Lezingen Tweeëtwintigste Jaargang 1 (2002)
The Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature – Studies in the Evolution of the Versions (Gorgias Press, Piscataway NJ, 2003).
“Mishnah, Mystery and the LXX
“, Continuity and Renewal: Judaism in Eretz Israel during the Byzantine-Christian Era, edited by Israel Levine (Dinur and JTS, Jerusalem, 2004), pp. 333-342
“Mishnah as Mystery”,
Mehqerei Talmud 3 [Talmudic Studies Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Ephraim E. Urbach, edited by Yaakov Sussman and David Rosenthal] (The Hebrew University Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 2005), Part 1, pp. 101-109 [Hebrew]
“Bemidbar Rabbah”,
Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 2009), cols. 818-821.
“Devarim Rabbah.”,
Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, Volume 6 (Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 2013), cols. 684-686.
“The Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Midrashim — Internal and External Interpretation” [Hebrew],
Carmi Sheli — Studies on Aggadah and its Interpretation Presented to Profess or Carmi Horowitz, edited by Arnon Atzmon, Avraham Grossman, Nahem Ilan, Michael Shmidman, Joseph Tabory (Boston, Touro College Press, 2012), pp. 57-65.
“
Lirot Im Ha-Hakhamim — Midrash Ke-Hadmayah” [Hebrew],
Ke-Tavor be-Harim — Joseph Tabory Jubilee Volume (Alon Shevut Israel: Tevunot, 2013), pp. 261-278.
“Genesis in Rabbinic Literature.”,
Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, Volume 9 (Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, 2014, cols. 1160-1162.
“Tanhuma”
Routledge Encyclopedia of Ancient Mediterranean Religions
edited by Eric Orlin (2016)
“Early Jewish Preaching”
The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media
edited by Tom Thatcher, Chris Keith, Raymond F. Person, Jr., Elsie R. Stern
T&T Clark (2017), pp. 110-111.
“Lamech – Rabbinic Judaism”,
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Volume 15
(Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2017), cols. 675-676.
“Mordecai Breastfed Esther — Male Lactation in Midrash, Medicine and Myth.”, in
The Faces of Torah — Studies in the Texts and Contexts of Ancient Judaism in Honor of Steven Fraade, edited by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Tzvi Novick and Christine Hayes [Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplements, Volume 22] (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2017) pp. 257-274.
“From Midrash to Mashal — The Sacrifice of Isaac as Misunderstanding”,
Parables in Changing Contexts — Interreligious and Cultural Approaches to the Study of Parables [forthcoming in Jewish and Christian Perspectives (JCP) (Leiden: Brill, 2018)].
“Midrash Rabbah”,
Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. (Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, [in press].
Internet Accessible
“The Aqedah: Midrash as Visualization”,
Journal of Textual Reasoning 2:1
(June 2003) (full text with four illustrations) with four response essays.
http://jtr.shanti.virginia.edu/volume-2-number-1/
“The Darshan: Preacher and Teacher of Talmudic Times”
http://trymyrabbi.com/jewish-holidays/the-darshan-preacher-and-teacher-of-talmudic-times-2
[initially published in
The Melton Journal, Spring 1982, No. 14, Sivan 5742 and previously available in the online
The Best of the Melton Journal].
“Pseudepigraphy in Rabbinic Literature”
http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/symposiums/2nd/papers/Bregman97.html
“The Aqedah at Qumran: Fire on the Mountain: a Comparison of 4Q225
Pseudo-Jubilees and Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer, Chapter 31”
Abstract of lecture presented at the Orion Center, May 21, 1998
http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il/orion/programs/Bregman.shtml
Book Reviews and Booknotes
Felix Bohl,
Aufbau und literarische Formen des
aggadischen Teils im Jelamdenu-Midrasch (Wiesbaden l977),
Journal of the American Oriental Society l00:2 (l980), pp. l69-l70
Daniel Sperber,
A Commentary on Derech Erez Zuta
(1990),
Religious Studies Review 19, p. 366.
Midrash Tanhuma (Genesis), translated by John T.
Townsend (1989),
CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly 38:3
(Summer 1991), pp. 83-85
James L. Kugel,
In Potiphar’s House (1990),
The
Journal of Religion 73 (1993), pp. 287-288. (Reprinted in
The
Jerusalem Post)
Jacob Neusner,
Androgynous Judaism (1993),
Religious Studies Review 21, p. 156.
David Kraemer,
Responses to Suffering in Classical
Rabbinic Literature (1995),
Religious Studies Review 21, p. 341.
Irving Jacob,
The Midrashic Process: Tradition and
Interpretation in Rabbinic Judaism (1995),
Religious Studies
Review 22, p. 171.
Samuel A. Berman,
Midrash Tanhuma-Yelammedenu: An English Translation of Genesis and Exodus from the Printed Version of Tanhuma-Yelammedenu with an Introduction (1996),
Religious Studies Review 23, p. 196.
Midrash Tanhuma (Genesis), translated by John T.
Townsend (1989),
CCAR Journal: A Reform Jewish Quarterly 38:3
(Summer 1991), pp. 83-85
Günter Stemberger,
Introduction to the Talmud and
Midrash (1996),
Religious Studies Review 24, p. 316.
- Daniel Breslauer (ed.), The Seductiveness of Jewish Myth: Challenge or Response (1997), Religious Studies Review 24, p. 317.
Jeffrey L. Rubenstein,
Talmudic Stories: Narrative Art, Composition, and Culture (1999),
Religious Studies Review 26, p. 393.
Rachel Adelman,
The Return of the Repressed: Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer and the Pseudepigrapha Catholic Biblical Quarterly 74 (2012), pp. 588-589
Rivka Ulmer,
Egyptian Cultural Icons in Midrash (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 2009),
H-Judaic (May, 2011) [https://networks.h-net.org/node/28655/reviews/30763/bregman-ulmer-egyptian-cultural-icons-midrash].
Shulamit Valer,
Sorrow and Distress in the Talmud (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2011),
H-Judiac (May, 2012) [https://networks.h-net.org/node/28655/reviews/30980/bregman-%E1%B9%BFaler-sorrow-and-distress-talmud].
Lee I. Levine,
Visual Judaism in Late Antiquity: Historical Contexts of Jewish Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), H-Judaic (August, 2015) [https://networks.h-net.org/node/28655/reviews/80249/bregman-levine-visual-judaism-late-antiquity-historical-contexts-jewish].
Belles Lettres
by “Moshe ben Yitzhak HaPardesan” (nom de plume) in
Gates to
the New City — A Treasury of Modern Jewish Tales,
edited by Howard Schwartz (Avon, New York, l985)
“The Seven Lights of the Lamp,” pp.lll-113
“The Third Tablet of the Covenant,” p. 165
“The Four Who Sought to Re-enter the Garden,” p. 279
The Sagarin Review 1 (1991)
“The Third Tablet of the Covenant”, pp. 43-44
“The Death of Moses”, pp. 44-45
The Sagarin Review 2 (1992)
“The Seven Lights of the Lamp”, pp. 44-46
“The Four Who Sought to Enter the Garden”, p. 46
The Sagarin Review 3 (1993)
“The Sabbath Bride” (Poem), p. 8
“Opening a Verse”, p. 51-52
The Sagarin Review 4 (1994)
“The Footsteps of the Sabbath Guests”, pp. 60-63
Learn Torah With…The 1994-95 Torah Annual, edited by Joel
Lurie Grishvaver and Stuart Kelman (Los Angeles, Torah Aura,
1996), “Parashat VaYishlah”
The Fifty-eighth Century: A Jewish Renewal Sourcebook, edited
by Shohama Harris Wiener (Jason Aronson, Northvale NJ,1997)
“Opening a Verse”
First Harvest: Jewish Writing in St. Louis 1991-1996, edited by
Howard Schwartz and Barbara Resnick (St. Louis, Brodsky Library
Press, 1997), two essays, two modern midrashim and one poem
previously published.
Learn Torah With…The 1995-96 Torah Annual, edited by Joel
Lurie Grishvaver and Stuart Kelman (Los Angeles, Torah Aura,
1997) “Parashat Ki-Tetze: Diary of a Comely Captive”
“Serach: The Recovery of Joseph’s Bones”,
Living Text
—The Journal of Contemporary Midrash 4 (Winter 1998), pp. 12-17.
