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
But the Targum of Jonathan reads: In that day shall the Messiah of Jehovah of hosts be for a crown of glory.
From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Eleazar Lord
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
Targum, a Chaldee version or paraphrase of the Old Testament.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
Borrow’s preface to Targum is dated “St. Petersburg, June 1, 1835.”
From The Life of George Borrow by Clement K. Shorter
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
Similar evidence is furnished by the Mishna and the Gemara, the Targums, and lastly by the Greek version of Aquila,5 which dates from the first half of the 2nd century A.D.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
Not until after A. D. 200 was the writing of the Targums authorized by Jewish custom.
From Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
For centuries these translations, or Targums, remained unwritten, were handed down orally, and were jealously guarded.
From Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
In the present connection, though not belonging properly to the Targums, may be named the Samaritan version of the Samaritan Pentateuch, printed with the originals in the Paris and London Polyglotts.
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
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