Category:Targum Onkelos (text)

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Targum Onkelos

Overview

Editions and translations

Due to its semi-official status in Rabbinic Judaism, Targum Onkelos was widely known. It was first printed in Bologna (1482) by Joseph Hayim ben Aaron Strasbourg Zarfati, with the Hebrew text of the Torah and Rashi's commentary. The Aramaic text was printed again several times by Jewish scholars, notably, for its greater accuracy, in 1557 at Sabbioneta by Tobiah Foà.

The text was well known to Christian scholars as well. It appeared in all major Polyglot Bibles, where the Aramaic text was accompanied by Latin translations (by Alfonso de Zamora, Bernardnus Baldus, and Andre de Leon de Zamora). A Latin translation was also published autonomously by Paulus Fagius in 1546.

The first modern translation of the Targum (in English) was completed by Etheridge in 1862-65.

The 1557 Sabbioneta ed. was reprinted by A. Berliner at Berlin, 1884.