Category:Targum (subject)

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The Targum is the ancient Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Bible, with additions and modification.

< Targum Neofiti -- Targum Onkelos -- Targum Pseudo-Jonathan >

Overview

History of research

Due to its semi-official status in Rabbinic Judaism, the Babylonian Targum (Targum Onkelos) was the first to be widely known. By Jewish scholars it was included in printed editions of the Torah, already at the end of the 15th century. By Christian scholars it was included in the major Polyglot Bibles of the 16th and 17th centuries (both in Aramaic and in Latin translation).

At the end of the 19th century both Targum Onkelos and Targum Pseudo-Jonathan were translated into English.

Texts of Fragment Targums also began to resurface but the interest in the earlier versions of the Palestinian Targum developed only after Alejandro Diez Macho identified at the Vatican Library the only extant copy of Targum Neofiti and published it in 1968-73.