# Midrash

As I started reading about the 2nd Temple period Judeo-Christian hermeneutics that Jesus, Paul and the other apostles used and/or were trained in - based on a Hebraic Old Testament worldview rather than a Platonic, Greco/Roman one - I soon found that using Midrash (which just added some additional Scriptural principles to traditional Western Grammatical-Historical exegesis) was the missing element in understanding and interpreting Scripture and Biblical prophecy that helped to clear up most of the apparent discrepancies in the Scripture as well as theological divisions between brethren. Immediately, the verses in the New Testament that liberal theologians use as examples of the OT being taken "out of context" to discredit the Word of God were meaningless. However, it also showed that most Evangelical scholars had no idea how to defend the scripture against these types of attacks and much of what has been done since the 1st century has resulted in more division than in anything else. It is no wonder that this
 subject is attacked or so miss-understood.

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