Mekhilta
Mekhilta, derived from the Mishnaic Hebrew term middah, is used to denote a compilation of Jewish exegesis attributed to a handful of members of Chazal.
There are three major Mekhiltas:
- The Mekhilta of [Rabbi Ishmael], a midrash halakha on the book of Exodus attributed to Rabbi Ishmael.
- The Mekhilta of [Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai], a midrash halakha on the book of Exodus attributed to Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai.
- The Mekhilta le-Sefer Devarim, a midrash halakha on the book of Deuteronomy that was edited in the third century BCE before going missing. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, a Rabbinic Judaism scholar at Ben-Gurion [University of the Negev], and Avi Shmidman, a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, collaborated with Dicta to reconstruct the Mekhilta le-Sefer Devarim by employing computational textual analysis on Rabbi David ben [Amram Adani]'s Midrash HaGadol, a 13th- or 14th-century Yemeni midrash aggadah.