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The Targums in the Light of Traditions of the Second Temple Period

By Jan Joosten , Thierry Legrand

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2014
ISBN
9004269541, 9789004269545
ISSN
1384-2161
Google Books ID
O1EMBAAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1211865 bytes)
Series
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 167
Pages
xiv+259\275
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-04-04 12:56:49
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Description

Although the Jewish Targums were written down only from the second century CE onward, and need to be studied against their Late Antique background, the issue of their connection to earlier sources and traditions is an important one. Do the existing Targums link up with an oral translation of Scripture and, if so, how far does it go back? Do the Targums transmit traditional exegetical material in a distinct form? What is the relation between the Targums and "parabiblical" literature of the Second Temple period (including the New Testament)? In the present volume, these and other questions are studied and debated by an international group of scholars including some of the best specialists of Targumic literature in all its diversity, as well as specialists of various Second Temple writings.

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