different between commentary vs midrash

English

From Middle French commentaire, from Latin comment?rius, comment?rium (“notebook”), compare French commentaire. See comment.

commentary (countable and uncountable, plural commentaries)

a series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work
- 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England
  This letter […] was published by him with a severe commentary.
(usually in the plural) a brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum
an oral relation of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs

(series of comments or annotations): scholia (ancient & medieval European works); secondary source

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