"midrash" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2016 June, Judith Shulevitz, “The Brontës’ Secret”, in The Atlantic:",
          "text": "You could call the Gospels a midrash on the Hebrew Bible, the lives of the saints a midrash on the Christ story, the Koran a midrash on all of the above.",
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          "text": "Northrop Frye called the novel “a kind of ‘midrash’ on the book of Job,” one that reimagines the opaque nature of divine justice as a labyrinthine modern bureaucracy.",
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