Targum
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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
Just before completing this great work, the Manchu New Testament, Mr. Borrow published a small volume in the English p. 49language, entitled Targum, or Metrical Translations from Thirty Languages and Dialects.
From A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow by Wise, Thomas James
Borrow’s preface to Targum is dated “St. Petersburg, June 1, 1835.”
From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.
Targum, as Mr. Gosse has pointed out, is a Chaldee word meaning an interpretation.
From A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow by Wise, Thomas James
Asenath, and the passages quoted there.1316.Sifre and Targum to Deut.
From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann
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 Szold, Adele
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 Talmage, James Edward
Targums, language in which they were written, 277.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
Tsaddik, the scholar, well versed in the Targums, was foremost in urging the adoption of this expedient.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward
The Targums of Jonathan and the Yerushalmi have, "He will make atonement for His land and for His people;" and Onkelos puts it thus, "He will show mercy unto His land and His people."
From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various
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 Müller, Max
Agreeably to this obvious conclusion, the Targums exhibit the Word with all the characteristics of the expected Messiah.
From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Lord, Eleazar
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