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The Liturgical Targum
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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 centurie...
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12 February 2026

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 Drawing on previously unpublished manuscript fragments, it traces how different Jewish communities adopted and adapted the Aramaic translation in their liturgies. Readers of this book will discover how layers of copying, reinterpretation, and scribal creativity shaped the textual history of the Targum.
Price: $107.00
Pages: 196
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
12 February 2026
ISBN: 9789004748828
Format: Hardcover
Jeroen Verrijssen, Ph.D. (2024), is a postdoctoral researcher of History at Ghent University. He has published on the transmission of Hebrew and Aramaic textual traditions, as well as their reception from Antiquity to the Medieval periods.