A redaction history of the pentateuchal Targums
Subtitle: Genesis 1:26-27 in the exegetical context of formative Judaism
By: Gudrun Elisabeth Lier
Contributors: Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias dissertations in biblical studies -- 53; Gorgias dissertations -- 53.
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ, USA
Language: mul
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781617191817
Subjects: Bible; Judaism; Versions; History; Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish; Talmudic period; Targum; Redaktion; Redaction Criticism; Midrash; Genesis 1,26-27
Description: "A Redaction History of the Pentateuch Targums combines Targum studies with Judaic studies. The author assigns different Targums (Fragment Targum [Recension P, MS Paris 110], Neofiti 1, Onqelos and Pseudo-Jonathan) each to a respective particular Sitz im Leben, stressing the close connection between Targum and Midrash literature. She challenges the assumption that all extant Targums were compiled for the Synagogue. Instead, she suggests that Targum Onqelos might have fulfilled a function in the context of the early beth din and demonstrates that Pseudo-Jonathan can be linked with the rhetorical practices which abounded in later amoraic, educational circles. Her theory is that Pseudo-Jonathan was actually compiled in stages. She identifies various problems, for example, the supposition by Mortensen and Flesher that rabbis and priests worked in distinct groups in the fourth century C.E."--back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A historical context for Pentateuch Targums; title: The historical roots of Targumic renderings of Genesis 1:26-27; title: A midrashic framework for Targumic renderings of Genesis 1:26-27; title: Genesis 1:26-27 according to Fragment Targum (Recension P, MS Paris 110) and Neofiti 1; title: Targum Onqelos and Genesis 1:26-27; title: Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and Genesis 1:26-27; title: Summary and general conclusions.