was first explicitly cited by the Halachot Gedolot.

Authorship

The content of Genesis Rabbah was not created by a single author, but was instead an organized compilation of various oral traditions. Some of those traditions are ascribed to a particular transmitter within the text itself. It is clear that the content comes from rabbis of the amoraic period, and Jewish tradition attributes Genesis Rabbah's authorship to Hoshaiah Rabbah, but specific authors or editors are disputed among

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