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
To apply this method the numbers of each letter occurring in the Targum of Onkelos on Genesis, or the whole Pentateuch, should be taken.
Nor was this the only literary labor performed by Mr. Borrow while at St. Petersburgh: to the "Targum" he appended a translation of "The Talisman," and other pieces from the Russian of Alexander Pushkin.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 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 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
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
These Targums were made for the use and instruction of the vulgar Jews, after their return from the Babylonish captivity.
From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Eleazar Lord
The "Word" of Philo, and of the Targums, is in no sense the Messiah.
From The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan
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
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
These translations from the Hebrew to the vernacular, or common speech, of the Jews were called Targums.
From Outline Studies in the Old Testament for Bible Teachers by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
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