Targum
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Targums,
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Targumim
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Origin of Targum
From the Aramaic word targūm literally, paraphrase, interpretation
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“People knew how good this team was,” said Tom Luicci, a former reporter for The Star-Ledger of Newark who also covered the team for The Daily Targum.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2015
The Targum of Onkelos, he observes, is rather a version than a paraphrase, for it renders the Hebrew text word for word.
From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Eleazar Lord
The Greek name Edessa appears in the Jerusalem Targum to Gen. x.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
Nor does the Second Targum help us here; it gives a wild explanation of Mordecai as “pure myrrh.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
The Jerusalem Targum, “The King Messiah whose is the kingdom.”
From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Eleazar Lord
These names do not indeed, accurately represent the authorship of the oldest Targumim, which may more correctly be regarded as later and authoritative recensions of what, in some form, had existed before.
From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by James Edward Talmage
Rashi constantly draws inspiration from both these works, and possibly also from the Targumim to the Hagiographa, which are much more recent than the other two Targumim.
From Rashi by Adele Szold
The Targums are ancient Jewish paraphrases on the scriptures, which were delivered in the synagogs in the languages of the common people.
From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by James Edward Talmage
The Chaldee and other Targums generally refer the 2d Psalm to the Messiah.
From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Eleazar Lord
The later Targums were written subsequent to the time of our Lord; but so far as regards the present argument, their importance is not the less on that account.
From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Eleazar Lord
Somewhere in my most desultory reading I have seen it stated that in some of those early Targums was the declaration, that 'God originally created men red, white and black.'
From St. Elmo by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
Chaldee, in what it consisted, 276. fragments in Ezra, 276. language of the Targums, 277. literature of Babylon and Nineveh, 278. the modern Mendaïtes or Nasoreans, 279.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
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