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Targum
- Onkelos Genesis 30 connections
- Onkelos Exodus 66 connections
- Onkelos Leviticus 41 connections
- Onkelos Numbers 16 connections
- Onkelos Deuteronomy 7 connections
- Pseudo Jonathan Genesis 41 connections
- Pseudo Jonathan Exodus 25 connections
- Pseudo Jonathan Leviticus 9 connections
- Pseudo Jonathan Numbers 17 connections
- Pseudo Jonathan Deuteronomy 7 connections
- Neofiti Genesis 26 connections
- Neofiti Exodus 12 connections
- Neofiti Numbers 3 connections
- Neofiti Deuteronomy 2 connections
- Fragment Targum Genesis Jerusalem Targum 1 connection
- Jonathan 1 Samuel 4 connections
- Jonathan 2 Samuel 2 connections
- Jonathan 1 Kings 4 connections
- Jonathan Isaiah 80 connections
- Jonathan Jeremiah 4 connections
- Jonathan Ezekiel 1 connection
- Jonathan Hosea 2 connections
- Jonathan Amos 5 connections
- Jonathan Micah 2 connections
- Jonathan Habakkuk 2 connections
- Targum Psalms 24 connections
- Targum Song of Solomon Targum Song of Songs 1 connection
- Targum Ruth 1 connection
- Targum Lamentations 2 connections
- Targum Job 1 connection
About this tradition
Produced over generations in the homiletical and liturgical setting of the synagogue, the Targumim constitute an Aramaic translation / paraphrase / interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. The word “Targum,” from the Aramaic word trgm, “to translate,” basically means a paraphrase or interpretive translation. The Aramaic translator was called the meturgeman. Targumim to all of the books of the OT, with the exceptions of Ezra-Nehemiah and Daniel (large portions of which were already in Aramaic), are extant in manuscripts which date, for the most part, from the Middle Ages.
Craig A. Evans, Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies: A Guide to the Background Literature (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2005), 185.
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