This volume, the second of two in the Collected Essays, contains nineteen selected articles on rabbinic texts as exegesis of Scripture, written by Arnold Goldberg between 1974 and 1990. The central theme of many of these articles is the development of an adequate method for research into literary forms and their functions, such as the mashal or the diverse compositional forms of the rabbinic homily. unrevised e-book edition 2020; Original edition 1999