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    Targum Jonathan (Hebrew: תרגום יונתן בן עוזיאל), otherwise referred to as Targum Yonasan/Yonatan, is the official eastern (Babylonian) targum (Aramaic...
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    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan (also known as the Jerusalem Targum, Targum Yerushalmi, or Targum Jonathan) is an Aramaic translation and interpretation (targum)...
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    Onkelos on the Torah Targum Jonathan on the Nevi'im These two targumim are mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud as targum dilan ("our Targum"), giving them official...
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    Targum Onkelos (or Onqelos; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: תַּרְגּוּם אֻנְקְלוֹס‎, Targūm ’Unqəlōs) is the primary Jewish Aramaic targum ("translation") of...
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  • Targum is a translation of the Bible into Aramaic. The classic Targumim are Targum Onkelos on the Chumash (a Torah in printed form), Targum Jonathan on...
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  • no "official" eastern (Babylonian) targum to Ketuvim, equivalent to Targum Onkelos on the Torah and Targum Jonathan on Nevi'im. In fact, the Babylonian...
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    often more expansive than Targum Onkelos, but less so than Targum Pseudo-Jonathan. In 1587, Andrea de Monte gave the Targum Neofiti to his friend Ugo...
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  • learning of Aramaic texts on Targum Onkelos and on Targum Jonathan . in medieval Jewish usage, the Aramaic language in general. Targum (Aramaic dialect), sometimes...
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    as a fumigant, medicine, and bleaching agent. Compounding this, the Targum Jonathan translates the Hebrew gofrīt as kīvrētāʾ (Aramaic: כִּבְרֵיתָא), a...
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  • children: Uz, Buz, Kemuel, Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel. Targum Jonathan says that Providence granted Milcah conception in the merit of her...
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    High Priest once and for all. Chazalic literature – specifically Targum Jonathan, Targum Yerushalmi, and the Babylonian Talmud – presents his name (מלכי־צדק‎)...
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    uses plural verbs with the name elohim. Some Jewish sources (e.g., Targum Jonathan, Ibn Ezra, add Chizkuni), seeking to explain the plural language of...
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    means that divine wisdom is not available anywhere other than in the Torah. Targum Neophyti (Deuteronomy 30:12) and b. Baba Metzia 59b claim that this text...
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    The Targum Sheni, also known as the Second Targum of Esther, is an Aramaic translation (targum) and elaboration of the Book of Esther. Notably, the biblical...
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  • respectively. There is also the case of Targum Jonathan, which was produced in the antiquity and served as the targum to the Nevi'im. It described the significance...
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    Rabbinic literature insists that she was an "innkeeper," based on Targum Jonathan and other texts (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: פֻנדְקֵיתָא, romanized: pundǝqeṯā)...
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    terms somewhere in the area of modern Aqaba and Eilat. According to Targum Jonathan, the name means "city of the rooster" (כְּרַך תַּרְנְגוֹלָא). Ezion-Geber...
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    Temurah, Keritot, and Me'ilah; the second dialect is closer in style to the Targum. From the time of its completion, the Talmud became integral to Jewish scholarship...
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  • servant of Abraham. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eliezer. Targum Jonathan Bereishit, 14:14 Scherman, Nosson, TANACH, the Stone Edition, Mesorah...
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  • The Targum Jonathan, a translation of the Hebrew scriptures into Aramaic, identified Elhanan with David as both were from Bethlehem (Targum Jonathan 2 Samuel...
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    Just, the Septuagint and Targum Jonathan". In Shepherd, David James; Joosten, Jan; van der Meer, Michaël (eds.). Septuagint, Targum and Beyond: Comparing...
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    forehead." The same statement about the Tetragrammaton was expressed by Targum Jonathan, Pirqé Rabbi Eliezer 21, and Zohar I.36b. In Kabbalah, the Zohar states...
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    source for the role it played in Jewish life at the time), and the Targum Pseudo-Jonathan. The English sudra derives from Jewish Aramaic סודרא‎. It in turn...
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  • the targum on Nevi'im was composed by Jonathan ben Uzziel. Like Targum Onkelos on the Torah, Targum Jonathan is an eastern (Babylonian) targum with early...
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    price of two zuzim, mentioned in every stanza, is (according to the Targum Jonathan to First Samuel 9:8) equal to the half-shekel tax upon every adult...
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    ISBN 0-567-09509-6 The Infinite Chain: Torah, Masorah, and Man, Nathan T. Lopes Cardozo (Targum Press Distributed by Philipp Feldheim, 1989). ISBN 978-0-944070-15-4 "The...
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    always clear from the context if the reference is to the Mishnah or the Targum, which could be regarded as a "doubling" of the Torah reading. Maimonides...
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    "life". Targum Onkelos (1st century CE) gives the meaning of the name as "the man to whom hidden things are revealed"; Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, "the man...
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    doi:10.1086/477703. JSTOR 3152410. "Targum Onkelos Genesis 8:4". Sefaria. Retrieved 10 February 2021. "Targum Jonathan Genesis 8:4". Sefaria. Retrieved 10...
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    Torah Targum Onkelos Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Fragment Targum Targum Neofiti...
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