Michael Klein on the Targums

Michael L. Klein, Ph.D. (1979), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, held the Effie Wise Ochs Chair in Biblical Literature at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem. He published critical editions of several important versions of the Palestinian Targums.

The primariy readership will be scholars and students in Targum Studies, Rabbinics and Late Antique Judaism. Also those who work in the history of Biblical interpretation, Aramaic language, Medieval Jewish manuscripts, and Masoretic Studies.

SECTION I
1. The Aramaic Targumim: Translation and Interpretation
2. Converse Translation: A Targumic Technique
3. The Preposition קדם (“Before”): A Pseudo-Anti-Anthropomorphism in the
Targums
4. Palestinian Targum and Synagogue Mosaics
5. The Translation of Anthropomorphisms and Anthropopathisms in the Targumim
6. Associative and Complementary Translation in the Targumim

SECTION II
7. A Fragment-Targum of Onqelos from the Cairo Genizah
8. Serugin (Shorthand) of Onqelos from the Cairo Genizah
9. New Fragments of Palestinian Targum from the Cairo Genizah
השלמות לכתבי יד מגניזת קאהיר . 10 —Complementary Fragments from the Cairo
Genizah
11. The Targumic Tosefta to Exodus 15:2
12. New Fragments of Targum to Esther from the Cairo Genizah
13. Introductory Poems (R’shuyot) to the Targum of the Haftarah in Praise of
Jonathan Ben Uzziel

SECTION III
14. Four Notes on the Triennial Lectionary Cycle
15. Not to be Translated in Public — לא מתרגם בציבורא
16. Text and Vorlage in Neofiti I
17. Deut 31:7: תביא or ?תבוא
18. The Notation of Parašot in MS Neofiti I
19. Notes on the Printed Edition of MS Neofiti I
20. Elias Levita and MS Neofiti I
21. The Messiah “That Leadeth Upon a Cloud,” in the Fragment-Targum to the
Pentateuch?
22. An Updated Bibliography of Manuscripts and Editions of Palestinian Targum to
the Pentateuch From the Cairo Genizah
Afterword, Stefan Reif
Bibliography of Michael L. Klein