Category:Targum Pseudo-Jonathan (text)

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan

Overview

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan is referred to as the Palestinian Targum (or Targum Yerushalmi), while the Babylonian Targum is represented by Targum Onkelos.

It is a combination of a commentary and a translation. It contains much Aggadic material from various sources, including the Midrash Rabbah and the Talmud. In his present form dates from after the Muslim conquest. The first author to refer to it repeatedly is Menahem Recanati (1250-1310) in his Perush 'Al ha-Torah.

Editions and translations

Only two manuscripts of Targum Pseudo-Jonathan are known. The first manuscript (now lost) was reproduced in the editio princeps (Venice, 1591), where it was incorrectly attributed to Jonathan ben Uzziel. It is believed to be the manuscript mentioned by Azariah de' Rossi in the 16th century. The second manuscript is in the British Museum and was published by Ginsburger in 1903.

In 1657 the Targum was included in Walton's Polyglot, with a Latin translation by Anthony Ralph de Chevalier (made in the 16th century?).