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Although the Jewish Targums were written down only from the second century CE onward, and need to be studied against their Late Antique background, the issue of their connection to earlier sources and traditions is an important one. Do the existing Targums link up with an oral translation of Scripture and, if so, how far does it go back? Do the Targums transmit traditional exegetical material in a distinct form? What is the relation between the Targums and "parabiblical" literature of the Second Temple period (including the New Testament)?
In the present volume, these and other questions are studied and debated by an international group of scholars including some of the best specialists of Targumic literature in all its diversity, as well as specialists of various Second Temple writings.
In the present volume, these and other questions are studied and debated by an international group of scholars including some of the best specialists of Targumic literature in all its diversity, as well as specialists of various Second Temple writings.
Price: $174.00
Pages: 260
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism
Publication Date:
16 July 2014
ISBN: 9789004269545
Format: Other
"The volume adds an important collection of voices to the ongoing enterprise of understanding and describing the content and structures of targumic literature. Moreover, because of its detailed engagement with all its subject material, this book offers a significant body of concrete data that can be incorporated into broader historical, methodological, and social accounts of early and rabbinic Judaism. Accordingly, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in Jewish translation literature, Second Temple literature, targumic literature, and methodological and historical questions pertaining to the literary motifs and traditions circulating during the Second Temple and rabbinic periods." – Simon Lasair, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, in: RBL 07/2016
Thierry Legrand, Ph.D. (1996, University of Strasbourg - Faculty of Protestant Theology), is teaching History of religions. Numerous publications on ancient Judaism and targumic literature in journals and books, co-director of the editorial project La Bibliothèque de Qumrân (Ed. du Cerf).
Jan Joosten (PhD 1989 Hebrew University, ThD 1994 Brussels), teaches since 1994 at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Strasbourg. He has published extensively on the Septuagint and is directing, together with Eberhard Bons, the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint.
Jan Joosten (PhD 1989 Hebrew University, ThD 1994 Brussels), teaches since 1994 at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Strasbourg. He has published extensively on the Septuagint and is directing, together with Eberhard Bons, the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint.