This book is an in-depth introduction and appraisal of midrash criticism, a critical approach applied to Gospel studies. Though midrash criticism utilizes genre criticism, redaction criticism, and historical criticism, it has developed into a separate critical approach with its own unique methodology. This work both introduces and examines this interpretive method. It meets the needs of both the beginning student and the advanced scholar.

Charles L. Quarles is Assistant Professor of New Testament and Greek at Clear Creek Baptist Bible College in Pineville, Kentucky.