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…
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…
For a reader trained on the Masoretic Text, the Samaritan Pentateuch is at once familiar and unsettling. The five books of Moses, the same sequence, the same stories from Genesis through Deuteronomy,…
