Editing Midrash (section)

== Contemporary Jewish midrash ==
A wealth of literature and artwork has been created in the 20th and 21st centuries by people aspiring to create "contemporary midrash".  Forms include poetry, prose, Bibliodrama (the acting out of Bible stories), murals, masks, and  music, among others. The Institute for Contemporary Midrash<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.icmidrash.org/ |title=The Institute for Contemporary Midrash |access-date=2013-10-15 |archive-date=2014-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104173411/http://icmidrash.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> was formed to facilitate these reinterpretations of sacred texts. The institute hosted several week-long intensives between 1995 and 2004, and published eight issues of ''Living Text: The Journal of Contemporary Midrash'' from 1997 to 2000.