When it says, for example, "R' Yosi" and nothing else, which R' Yosi is it?
Is there a map anywhere of all the places mentioned in Midrash?
Why in Koheles Rabba is there a mark for Sidra Tliasa but not the previous two?



PS: Someone told me that the Talmud Yerushalmi is a lot like most of Midrash, and the Midrash Shochar Tov is like Talmud Bavli... would someone mind explaining that statement?

Rabbi Yossi ben chalafta.

I don't know if there is one for all the places mentioned in the Midrash, there are for all the places mentioned in Tanach.

I am not sure what you mean about Koheles Rabah, in my midrash it does have parsha 1 and 2, or am I misunderstanding something?

I am not sure about what you say regrading the yerushalmi being like the Midrash, I think the yerushalmi is written with a lot more Aramaic than the Midrash, you may have a lot of words in the Midrash that you do not find in the bavli (I don't know enough about the yerushalmi), but over all my humble uneducated opinion is that the language is close to the Bavli than the yerushalmi, I am not sure that the midrash tehilim\sochor tov is that much different.

Why not HaGlili, ben Yoezer ish tzreda, etc?

OK.

Where? (what perakim?)

Someone told it to me. Thank you.

When you you ask why not Haglili, are you asking why not him, or how do I know its not him?

Where what? do the parshas start? they correspond (here) to the perakim, so parsha 1 goes until the words "Amarti ani.." which is the beginning of perek 2, and parsha aleph goes until the words "Lekol Zeman..." which is the beginning of perek 3.

Maybe there was a missunderstanding as to what that someone said\meant.

How do you know it's not him?

Thank you.

Well that is what the seder hadoros writes citing a gemora and a Tosfos in yevomos, btw this Rabbi Yossi is said to be the author of the Midrash seder Olam Rabah.

Thank you very much.