A Glossary of Targum Onkelos
Biographical note
Edward M. Cook, Ph.D. (1986), University of California at Los Angeles, is Associate Professor of Semitic Languages at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He has published a number of works in the area of Targumic and Qumran Aramaic, and is co-author of The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation (2nd ed., 2005).
Readership
For all those interested in Jewish exegesis, the Aramaic dialects, and the history of biblical interpretation, as well as rabbis, seminarians, and specialists in Semitic langauges and the Ancient Near East.
Reviews
Cook’s glossary is a significant and most useful tool for all who study Targum Onqelos or Aramaic dialectology.
He has earned our deep gratitude.
Steven E. Fassberg, Aramaic Studies, 2009
" This new Glossary of Targum Onkelos by Edward Cook is to be warmly welcomed, as it offers the reader a handy and reliable one-volume glossary of all of the vocabulary of Onkelos—the most widely used Jewish Aramaic translation of the Pentateuch—found in the best currently available edition of the targum, that of Sperber in an
easily usable format.
[...]
Ed Cook’s Glossary of Targum Onkelos is an absolutely essential purchase for all libraries with an interest in Jewish, Biblical, or Theological studies, and it is clearly going to become a standard tool for many of our students."
David G.K. Taylor from the Oriental Institute, Oxford, published in Hugoye,13.2, 2010.
He has earned our deep gratitude.
Steven E. Fassberg, Aramaic Studies, 2009
" This new Glossary of Targum Onkelos by Edward Cook is to be warmly welcomed, as it offers the reader a handy and reliable one-volume glossary of all of the vocabulary of Onkelos—the most widely used Jewish Aramaic translation of the Pentateuch—found in the best currently available edition of the targum, that of Sperber in an
easily usable format.
[...]
Ed Cook’s Glossary of Targum Onkelos is an absolutely essential purchase for all libraries with an interest in Jewish, Biblical, or Theological studies, and it is clearly going to become a standard tool for many of our students."
David G.K. Taylor from the Oriental Institute, Oxford, published in Hugoye,13.2, 2010.
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