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 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
Borrow’s preface to Targum is dated “St. Petersburg, June 1, 1835.”
From The Life of George Borrow by Clement K. Shorter
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
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
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 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
Of these Targums, and others of a later date, it is known that they exhibit or construe the predictions concerning the Messiah in the same way as is done by Christians.
From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Eleazar Lord
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
Targums, language in which they were written, 277.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
For their use, translations of the Hebrew into the Aramaic, called Targums, were made.
From Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Washington Gladden
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
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