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Targum Onkelos and the Birth of Aramaic Scripture

Few documents of the late Second Temple and early Tannaitic periods have been more continuously used than the Aramaic translation of the Pentateuch that Jewish tradition calls Targum Onkelos. It is the…

Scripture

Targum Onkelos And The Aramaic Pentateuch Tradition

Long before the Hebrew text received its Tiberian pointing, and before the Masoretes fixed its consonants in the canonical line we now read, Jewish communities in the land of Israel and the…