The Fragment-Targums of the Pentateuch: Texts, indices, and introductory essays
The Fragment-Targums of the Pentateuch: Texts, indices, and introductory essays

Author: Michael L. Klein

Publisher: Gregorian & Biblical Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 272

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If traduttori traditori, then how shall the doubly-damned translators of targum be described? One of the major purposes of the targum was indeed to translate Scripture into the vernacular. Its other major purposes, however, were to interpret the Holy Writ, and to find in it a basis for Synagogal homily. The tension between these conflicting goals has been felt since very early times; for, whereas the first requires a rather literal rendition of the text, the latter two can be achieved only through paraphrase and midrashic exposition and expansion - and even, at times, through the outright contradiction of the original Hebrew text. All the known targums of the Pentateuch partake of both of these types of translation - only in varied proportions; and the balance that is struck between the literal and the paraphrastic, is what determines the individual character of a particular targum. The targums never achieved independent existence - nor were they ever intended to replace the Hebrew Bible. On the contrary, they were read alongside the Hebrew Version, both at home and in the Synagogue; and as such, were always relegated a secondary status. And even if the ignorant masses were, at some point in history, totally dependent upon the Aramaic rendition, the rabbis never let theme lose sight of the Hebrew original.

The Targums of Jonathan Ben Uzziel On the Pentateuch With The Fragments of the Jerusalem Targum From the Chaldee
The Targums of Jonathan Ben Uzziel On the Pentateuch With The Fragments of the Jerusalem Targum From the Chaldee

Author: J. W. Etheridge

Publisher: Christian Classics Reproductions

Published: 2022-04-26

Total Pages: 274

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Excerpt from The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch: With the Fragments of the Jerusalem Targum, From the Chaldee; Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy The holy Pentateuch opens with a sentence which combines the majesty and simplicity of a Divine oracle In the beginning Elohim created the heavens and th cart a sentence whose few but sublime words throw the first beam of light on the otherwise inscrutable mystery of existence, and lead us up to the foun tain and cause of created being, in God, its Author and End. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Messenger of the Lord in Early Jewish Interpretations of Genesis
The Messenger of the Lord in Early Jewish Interpretations of Genesis

Author: Camilla Hélena von Heijne

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2010-09-29

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 3110226855

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The focus of this book is on early Jewish interpretations of the ambiguous relationship between God and ‛the angel of the Lord/God’ in texts like Genesis 16, 22 and 31. Genesis 32 is included since it exhibits the same ambiguity and constitutes an inseparable part of the Jacob saga. The study is set in the wider context of the development of angelology and concepts of God in various forms of early Judaism. When identifying patterns of interpretation in Jewish texts, their chronological setting is less important than the nature of the biblical source texts. For example, a common pattern is the avoidance of anthropomorphism. In Genesis ‛the angel of the Lord’ generally seems to be a kind of impersonal extension of God, while later Jewish writings are characterized by a more individualized angelology, but the ambivalence between God and his angel remains in many interpretations. In Philo's works and Wisdom of Solomon, the ‛Logos’ and ‛Lady Wisdom’ respectively have assumed the role of the biblical ‛angel of the Lord’. Although the angelology of Second Temple Judaism had developed in the direction of seeing angels as distinct personalities, Judaism still had room for the idea of divine hypostases.