Studies in the Targum to the Twelve Prophets

Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-90-04-09987-6
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, Band 51, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Vetus Testamentum, Supplements

This volume is concerned with the origin and development of the Targum to the Prophets, focusing for this purpose upon the Twelve Prophets (from Nahum to Malachi).
A wide-ranging introductory chapter sets current research in context by surveying almost two centuries of Targumic study. It is argued that the evidence in the extant text for a Second Commonwealth phase in the Targum's history is meagre and that, in particular, the Qumran Habakkuk 'pesher' is not dependent upon the Targum to Habakkuk.
Other issues discussed are the Hebrew 'Vorlage' of the Targum, incipit formulae, 'Additional Targum' and the standard Targum, the 'haggadah' in the Targum to Zechariah 3 in the light of a (so-called) Eastern Aramaic linguistic element, Targum and Peshiṭta, land and divine presence, and the final redaction of the Targum.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gordon, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Heilige & Traditionelle Texte, Mythologie, Vergleichende Mythologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Bibelwissenschaften: Sachbuch, Erbauung, Didaktik

Über Autor(innen)

Robert P. Gordon, Ph.D. (1973) in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge, lectures in Old Testament in the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge. Has published principally in the areas of Old Testament and the ancient versions. Volumes include 1 and 2 Samuel. A Commentary (Exeter, 1986) and (jointly) The Aramaic Bible, 14 (Wilmington, 1989).