midrashistn.

1975 Way Suppl. No. 25. 83 Meditation upon the OT with a view to giving it a contemporary application is sometimes designated Midrash. Certainly the rabbinic midrashists of the post-Christian era attempted to do just that.

1986 Times 20 Dec. 18/5 The midrashist had a text in front of him which he elaborated often in a most fanciful way.

1997 Jewish Advocate (Nexis) 3 Jan. 20 Perhaps the biggest problem is that the classical midrashists wrote in a time of faith in God and the Torah.