R. Moses the Preacher and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs

Abstract

R. Moses the Preacher in eleventh-century Narbonne was the compiler of an early example of the genre of biblical commentary to which the later Yalqut Shim'oni belongs, the anthology drawn from a wide range of rabbinic sources. Bereshit Rabbati (henceforth, BR ), Midrash Aggadah , and Bemidbar Rabbah to Bemidbar and Naso are the surviving remnants of this work.