Midrash
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A midrash is one of a genre of stories expanding upon Biblical stories composed by rabbis of late Antiquity or the Middle Ages. Orthodox Jews often consider them to have the authority of Scripture; most others consider them to be Biblical fan-fiction. How did the rabbis of old know what really happened in the Bible? Obviously, the Ruach haKodesh told them.