A Jewish Targum in a Christian world /

A Jewish Targum in a Christian world /

What is the use of a Targum in a cultural setting where Aramaic is not a common language anymore? And why would Christians be interested in a typically Jewish text in an otherwise anti-Jewish milieu? These and related questions have served as guides for Alberdina Houtman, Eveline van Staalduine-Sulm...

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Other Authors: Houtman, Alberdina., Staalduine-Sulman, Eveline van., Kirn, Hans-Martin.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2014.

Series: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series 27.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2014, ISBN: 9789004262416.

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Bible. > Old Testament. > Aramaic > Versions.
Judaism > Relations > Christianity.
Christianity and other religions > Judaism.

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Call Number: BS709.4 .J49 2014

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction /
  • Alberdina Houtman
  • A Variety of Targum Texts /
  • Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman
  • The Role of Targum Samuel in European Jewish Liturgy /
  • Peter Sh. Lehnardt
  • Initial Observations Concerning the Text of Targum 2 Samuel 22 as Preserved in European Liturgical Manuscripts /
  • Hector M. Patmore and Johanna M. Tanja
  • The Role of the Targum in Jewish Education in Medieval Europe /
  • Alberdina Houtman
  • Targum Layouts in Ashkenazi Manuscripts. Preliminary Methodological Observations /
  • Elodie Attia
  • The Latin Versions of the Old Testament from Jerome to the Editio Clementina /
  • Geert W. Lorein
  • The Commission of Targum Manuscripts and the Patronage of Christian Hebraism in Sixteenth-Century Castile /
  • Jesús de Prado Plumed
  • A Jewish Targum in a Remarkable Paratext. Paratextual Elements in Two Targum Manuscripts of Alfonso de Zamora /
  • Johanna M. Tanja and Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman
  • The 'Jewish' Rabbinic Bibles versus the 'Christian' Polyglot Bibles /
  • Hans van Nes and Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman
  • Christian Arguments for Including Targums in Polyglot Bibles /
  • Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman and Johanna M. Tanja
  • The Study of the Aramaic Targum by Christians in Medieval France and England /
  • Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
  • The Targum in Christian Scholarship to 1800 /
  • Stephen G. Burnett
  • Traces of Targum Reception in the Work of Martin Luther /
  • Hans-Martin Kirn
  • 'And Their Laws Are Diverse From All People'. Haman's Protests against the Jews in Targum Sheni to Esther /
  • Yaacov Deutsch
  • Index of Subjects and Names
  • Index of Ancient and Medieval Sources.