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Midrash also asks questions of the text sometimes it provides answers, sometimes it leaves the reader to answer the questions". "They reimagine dominant narratival readings while crafting new ones to stand alongside-not replace-former readings.

Midrash and rabbinic readings "discern value in texts, words, and letters, as potential revelatory spaces", writes the Hebrew scholar Wilda Gafney. The word itself means "textual interpretation", "study", or " exegesis", derived from the root verb darash ( דָּרַשׁ‎), which means "resort to, seek, seek with care, enquire, require", forms of which appear frequently in the Hebrew Bible. מִדְרָשִׁים midrashim or מִדְרָשׁוֹת midrashot) is expansive Jewish Biblical exegesis using a rabbinic mode of interpretation prominent in the Talmud.