Tibat Marqe is a collection of midrashic compositions, which, in the main, rewrites the Pentateuch, expanding its sometimes laconic presentation of events and precepts. Most of it aims at providing the reader with theological, didactic and philosophical teachings, artistically associated with the passages of the Torah. Here and there poetic pieces are embedded into its otherwise prosaic text. Tibat Marqe is attributed to the 4th century scholar, philosopher and poet, Marqe.
This publication of Tibat Marqe follows the monumental Hebrew edition of Ze ev Ben-Hayyim, Tibat Marqe, a...