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Anon., Midrash Psalms, 50.1

nan ... “From the rising of the sun until its setting…” (Psalms 113:3) When flesh and blood wants to make an image, it begins with the head and ends with the feet or begins with the feet and ends with the head. Not so the Holy One! When He makes man, He shapes him all at once, as it says “…for He is the One Who formed everything…” (Jeremiah 10:16) This is ‘from the rising of the sun until its setting.’ And from where do we learn that He created it from Zion? As it says “From Zion, the finery (miclal) of beauty…” (Psalms 50:2) From out of (m’clal) the beauty of the world. What does ‘appeared’ mean? Illuminated. Appearance always refers to light, as it says “…and causes the light of His cloud to appear.” (Job 37:15) From where do we learn that this is speaking of the world? It says here miclal and it says elsewhere “Now the heavens and the earth were completed (vay’chulu)…” (Genesis 2:1) And when He destroys it, He will start from Zion, as it says “And I will make Jerusalem heaps of ruin…” (Jeremiah 9:10) and afterwards “All the land shall be a desolation…” (Jeremiah 4:27) And it says “And the land shall become desolate with its inhabitants…” (Micah 7:13) And at the time when the Holy One renews His world He will renew it from Zion, as it says “…the mountain of the Lord's house shall be firmly established at the top of the mountains…” (Isaiah 2:2)"

Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Hebrew Bible, Exodus, 25.9, 31.3, 36.2 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 25.9. כְּכֹל אֲשֶׁר אֲנִי מַרְאֶה אוֹתְךָ אֵת תַּבְנִית הַמִּשְׁכָּן וְאֵת תַּבְנִית כָּל־כֵּלָיו וְכֵן תַּעֲשׂוּ׃ 31.3. וָאֲמַלֵּא אֹתוֹ רוּחַ אֱלֹהִים בְּחָכְמָה וּבִתְבוּנָה וּבְדַעַת וּבְכָל־מְלָאכָה׃ 36.2. וַיַּעַשׂ אֶת־הַקְּרָשִׁים לַמִּשְׁכָּן עֲצֵי שִׁטִּים עֹמְדִים׃ 36.2. וַיִּקְרָא מֹשֶׁה אֶל־בְּצַלְאֵל וְאֶל־אָהֳלִיאָב וְאֶל כָּל־אִישׁ חֲכַם־לֵב אֲשֶׁר נָתַן יְהוָה חָכְמָה בְּלִבּוֹ כֹּל אֲשֶׁר נְשָׂאוֹ לִבּוֹ לְקָרְבָה אֶל־הַמְּלָאכָה לַעֲשֹׂת אֹתָהּ׃ 25.9. According to all that I show thee, the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the furniture thereof, even so shall ye make it." 31.3. and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship," 36.2. And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it."
2. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 2.2-2.3 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 2.2. וַיְכַל אֱלֹהִים בַּיּוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי מְלַאכְתּוֹ אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה וַיִּשְׁבֹּת בַּיּוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי מִכָּל־מְלַאכְתּוֹ אֲשֶׁר עָשָׂה׃ 2.2. וַיִּקְרָא הָאָדָם שֵׁמוֹת לְכָל־הַבְּהֵמָה וּלְעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם וּלְכֹל חַיַּת הַשָּׂדֶה וּלְאָדָם לֹא־מָצָא עֵזֶר כְּנֶגְדּוֹ׃ 2.3. וַיְבָרֶךְ אֱלֹהִים אֶת־יוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי וַיְקַדֵּשׁ אֹתוֹ כִּי בוֹ שָׁבַת מִכָּל־מְלַאכְתּוֹ אֲשֶׁר־בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים לַעֲשׂוֹת׃ 2.2. And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made." 2.3. And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it He rested from all His work which God in creating had made."
3. Hebrew Bible, Proverbs, 3.19-3.20 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 3.19. יְהוָה בְּחָכְמָה יָסַד־אָרֶץ כּוֹנֵן שָׁמַיִם בִּתְבוּנָה׃ 3.19. The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding He established the heavens." 3.20. By His knowledge the depths were broken up, And the skies drop down the dew."
4. Hebrew Bible, Psalms, 50.1 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 50.1. כִּי־לִי כָל־חַיְתוֹ־יָעַר בְּהֵמוֹת בְּהַרְרֵי־אָלֶף׃ 50.1. מִזְמוֹר לְאָסָף אֵל אֱ‍לֹהִים יְהוָה דִּבֶּר וַיִּקְרָא־אָרֶץ מִמִּזְרַח־שֶׁמֶשׁ עַד־מְבֹאוֹ׃ 50.1. A Psalm of Asaph. God, God, the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth From the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof."
5. New Testament, Mark, 7.1 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 7.1. Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.
6. New Testament, Matthew, 15.1 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 15.1. Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying
7. Palestinian Talmud, Berachot, 9.1 (2nd cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
8. Anon., Avot Derabbi Nathan A, 37 (6th cent. CE - 8th cent. CE)
9. Anon., Pesiqta De Rav Kahana, 4.7

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
attributes, divine	Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2003) 244, 245
creation	Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2003) 245; Grypeou and Spurling, The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity (2009) 8
divine/god, command	Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2003) 245
divine/god, hypostases	Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2003) 245
divine/god, throne	Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2003) 245
fruit	Grypeou and Spurling, The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity (2009) 8
godhead; see also attributes, hierarchy	Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2003) 244, 245
godhead; see also attributes, logoi/gradations	Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2003) 244, 245
godhead; see also attributes, unity	Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2003) 244
king, rhetoric	Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2003) 244
logos	Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2003) 244, 245; Grypeou and Spurling, The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity (2009) 8
magic	Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2003) 245
myth, esoteric	Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2003) 244
name (divine), creation with	Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2003) 244
name (divine), profanation of	Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2003) 245
piyyut	Grypeou and Spurling, The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity (2009) 8
ritual/law, as divine evocation	Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2003) 245
sammael	Grypeou and Spurling, The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity (2009) 8
satayēl	Grypeou and Spurling, The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity (2009) 8
simlai (r.)	Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2003) 244, 245
tabernacle	Grypeou and Spurling, The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity (2009) 8
temple'	Grypeou and Spurling, The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity (2009) 8
yoḥanan ben zakkai	Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2003) 245
ḥayyot, powers within	Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2003) 244, 245
ḥelbo (r.), heresy	Fishbane, Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking (2003) 244