Childs on Boyarin and Kugel
A major emphasis of two of these scholars ... is to describe midrash as a way of reading the Bible according to a radical intertextual manner, assuming it to be the authoritative Scriptures of Judaism. In opposition to the hermeneutical model of the historical critical method, which postulates that the original text was clear and transparent before its subsequent distortion through the passage of time, midrash assumes that the meaning of the original biblical text was often hidden and ambiguous, and that its truth is only later revealed through continual interpretation.
Critique of Recent Intertextual Canonical Interpretation
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Childs, B. S. (2003). Critique of Recent Intertextual Canonical Interpretation. Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, 115, 173–184. https://doi.org/10.1515/zatw.2003.010/html