The Hebrew text on which it rests is practically our Maeoretic text, and it is of interest as representing the exegetical tradition of the Jews. Targvm its final written form before the fifth Jonathan. century. It is more paraphrastic than the Targum of the Law, which induced Cornill to think that it is older. Eichhorn and Bertholdt thought they recognized different hands. The paraphrase is greatly influenced by the book of Daniel.
Great enmity is shown against Rome.
Some verses are missing from the 4. Certain other fragments of the found in various manuscripts and edi- Law and Prophets. The comment in these pieces is sometimes very fantastic. The foolish anachronisms, the Targuln of the Psalms is in some parts literal, in rapha. For Esther there are two Targums.