The liturgical Targum : the Aramaic translation of the Torah in mahzorim / By Jeroen Verrijssen.

Author/creator Verrijssen, Jeroen author.
Format Book
PublicationLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.
Descriptionxi, 196 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesSupplements to Aramaic Studies ;
Supplements to Aramaic studies ; v. 21. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Introduction -- Methodology and manuscripts -- The Liturgical Targum -- The Fragment Targums -- The influence of Targum Onqelos -- The targumic network.
Abstract "What happens when a community continues to recite and transmit sacred texts it no longer understands? The Targum, or Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Bible, found its origins in the first centuries CE, and yet Jewish communities continued to transmit its contents well into the Middle Ages, when knowledge of Aramaic was considered to be scarce. This book explores the Liturgical Targum as it appears in festival prayerbooks (mahzorim). Drawing on previously unpublished manuscript fragments, it traces how different Jewish communities adopted and adapted the Aramaic translation in their liturgies. You'll discover how layers of copying, and reinterpretation, and scribal creativity shaped the textual history of the Targum." Back cover
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index.
Issued in other formebook version : 9789004517455
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