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    A targum (Imperial Aramaic: תרגום 'interpretation, translation, version') was an originally spoken translation of the Hebrew Bible (also called the Tanakh)...
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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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    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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    The Targum Jonathan (Hebrew: תרגום יונתן בן עוזיאל) is the translation to the Nevi'im section of the Hebrew Bible employed in Lower Mesopotamia ("Babylonia")...
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  • The Daily Targum is the official student newspaper of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Founded in 1867, it is the second-oldest collegiate...
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    Targum Neofiti (or Targum Neophyti) is the largest of the western or Palestinian Targumim on the Torah. The name derives from the ecclesiastical Latin...
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  • Look up targum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Targum may mean: any of the Aramaic translations of the Bible known as Targumim. Most traditional Jews...
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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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  • The Targum Rishon, also known as the First Targum of Esther in the Hebrew, is an Aramaic translation (targum) and elaboration of the Book of Esther. Much...
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  • however, 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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  • Targum is used by the Jews of northern Iraq and Kurdistan to refer to a variety of Aramaic dialects spoken by them till recent times. For details of these...
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    Targum Neofiti (Neof.) and the fragments (FTP and FTV), on the verse Deutoronomy 33:6, the "second death" is "the death that the wicked die." Targum Isaiah...
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  • original Targum titles. Subsequently, they began reprinting Targum books in a more modern style. In the 1990s books were published using "Targum/Feldheim"...
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  • The Targum of Lamentations (TgLam) is an Aramaic rendering of the biblical Book of Lamentations. Like all other targumim, TgLam renders the biblical book...
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    Samaritan Targum have appeared. In 1875, the German scholar Adolf Brüll published his Das samaritanische Targum zum Pentateuch (The Samaritan Targum to the...
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    article on the first college football game ever played, published in The Targum, the Rutgers University student newspaper, in November 1869. Right: A plaque...
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    Targum Sheni. However, according to the Encyclopaedia Judaica Targum Sheni is dated to around 700 similarly the general consensus is to date Targum Sheni...
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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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  • Shekhinah (section Targum)
    deliberately used to represent the original Hebrew or Aramaic term.: 148  In the Targum the addition of the noun term shekhinah paraphrases Hebrew verb phrases...
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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 Babylonian Talmud (which was completed in the seventh century), the Targum Onqelos, and of post-Talmudic (Gaonic) literature, which are the most important...
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    suggestions that the Targum was written down at an early date, although for private use only. The official recognition of a written Targum and the final redaction...
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  • Daniel and Ezra in the Hebrew Bible. It should not be confused with the Targums – Aramaic paraphrases, explanations and expansions of the Hebrew scriptures...
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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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  • post-Achaemenid dialect found in the Targum Onqelos and Targum Jonathan, the "official" targums. The original, Hasmonaean targums had reached Babylon sometime...
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  • canon Targum Yerushalmi, a western targum (translation) of the Torah (Pentateuch) from the land of Israel (as opposed to the eastern Babylonian Targum Onkelos)...
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    Tanakh Torah Nevi'im Ketuvim Talmud Mishnah Gemara Rabbinic Midrash Tosefta Targum Beit Yosef Mishneh Torah Tur Shulchan Aruch Zohar...
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  • print. A 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...
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  • דַּמֶּשֶׂק אֱלִיעֶזֶר, romanized: Damméseq ʾÉliʿézer) was, according to the Targums, the son of Nimrod. Eliezer was head of the patriarch Abraham's household...
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    Tanakh) as religious text, mostly in the Greek (Septuagint) or Aramaic (Targum) translations. Early Christians wrote many religious works, including the...
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