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
Should such surmise be correct, the Tales are contemporary with Targum.
From A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow by Thomas James Wise
Tar′gumist, a writer of a Targum: a student of the Targums.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
The Samaritan Targum, of about the same date, clearly rests on the same tradition.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
“The reason supposed in the Targum for the directions given to the priest is that the priest’s approach should be cautious to the innermost ‘Holy of Holies,’ or Sanctuary of the Tabernacle.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
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 question has been raised whether the Targums have for their authors single individuals, or are the embodiment of traditional interpretations collected and revised by one or more persons.
From Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows
In the Targums, the Talmud, and the associated sources, abundant statements of it in copious forms are preserved.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
His Chaldee, moreover, like that of Ezra, contains Hebrew forms such as do not occur in the earliest of the Targums.
From Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows
Targums, language in which they were written, 277.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
For an account of the Latin and Syriac versions, the Targums, and the later Rabbinic literature connected with this subject, and other questions relating to these additions, see Fritzsche, Exeget.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
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