Textual Mirrors Reflexivity, Midrash, and the Rabbinic Self Dina Stein "Dina Stein focuses on some of the most complex and crucial questions concerning the proper understanding of midrashic discourse and the processes of its production and reception."--Joshua Levinson, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem As they were entering Egypt, Abram glimpsed Sarai's reflection in the Nile River. Though he had been married to her for years, this moment is positioned in a rabbinic narrative as a revelation. "Now I know you are a beautiful woman," he says; at that moment he also knows himself as a desiring...