The Priesthood in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan (2 vols)
Biographical note
Beverly P. Mortensen, Ph.D. (1995), in Religion, Northwestern University, is adjunct Professor of Religion at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. She has published in the area of targumic studies and is managing editor of The Newsletter for Targumic and Cognate Studies.
Readership
Readers who enjoy biblical interpretation, early Judaism, history of law, ritual, the priesthood, esoteric phenomena and legends; as well as scholars of religion, theology, rabbinic thought and the Christian priesthood.
Reviews
'Mortensen is to be congratulated on her work and thanked for her assembly and study of the expansive material specific to PJ.'
Martin McNamara, Review of Biblical Literature, 2006
Martin McNamara, Review of Biblical Literature, 2006
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This volume offers an in-depth treatment of the Targumic Toseftot to Ezekiel by presenting the critical text, translation, and comprehensive commentary. The study further provides new insights into their Aramaic dialect, date and provenance, as well as their historical and social setting.
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This remarkable survey introduces critical knowledge and insights that have emerged over the past forty years, including targum manuscripts discovered this century and targums known in Aramaic but only recently translated into English. Prolific scholars Flesher and Chilton guide readers in ...
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During his life, Michael Klein played an important role in helping establish the modern study of the Targums. This collection brings together some of his writings on the Cairo Geniza Targum fragments, targumic translation technique, and Targum Neofiti.
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These essays explore ancient Jewish Bible interpretation preserved in the Aramaic Targums, bringing it into conversation with Rabbinic and Christian scriptural exegesis, and setting it in the larger world of ancient translations of the Bible.
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This study explores the possibility of using variant readings of the Targum of the Prophets to get better insight into the origin and history of Targum Jonathan. The book is useful for the study of the genesis of Targum Jonathan and its later developments.
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In the context of current research on grammaticalization phenomena, this book offers a synchronic explanation of the verbal system of the Aramaic of Daniel that is coherent with the diachronic development of Aramaic and of human languages in general.
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Analyzing manuscripts of different provenances reveals textual stemmas and the evolution of Targum Jonathan as it proliferated from Palestine to East and West. This background material elucidates Jonathan’s reactions to the near past and to his own time.
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This glossary of Targum Onkelos, based on the standard critical edition, contains all of the vocabulary of the targum with supralinear vocalization, and accompanied by bibliographical references to other Aramaic dictionaries.
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The targumic interpretative renderings are a source of fascination. Close examination of the Targum to the books of Kings shows a preponderance of apparently didactic readings conforming with the Targum's function as a tool in synagogue, school, and private study.
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The Rabbinic Targum of Lamentations demonstrates how the targumist transformed the Book of Lamentations by absolving God of all guilt, declaring Israel’s culpability for Jerusalem's destruction, and presenting the path towards reconciliation through repentance and rabbinic worship. A new ...
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