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Hebraisms in the Targumim

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Author(s): Cook, Edward M.
Targumim (singular targum) refers to translations of the Hebrew Bible into Jewish Aramaic. Although the earliest extant Aramaic Bible translations, found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, date from the 1st century B.C.E., the targumim as referred to here date from the post-Second Temple period and represent the viewpoint of Rabbinic Judaism. The most important targumim are: Targum Onqelos to the Pentateuch and Targum Jonathan to the Prophets, both written in a literary form of Jewish Aramaic, probably originating in Palestine in the first few centuries C.E., but …