A Redaction History of the Pentateuch Targums : : Genesis 1:26-27 in the Exegetical Context of Formative Judaism / / Gudrun Elisabeth Lier.

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• VerfasserIn: Lier, Gudrun Elisabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Biblical Studies ; 53
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (311 p.)

This volume combines Targum studies with Judaic studies. The author assigns different Targums each to a respective particular "Sitz im Leben", stressing the close connection between Targum and Midrash literature. She challenges the assumption that all extant Targums were compiled for the Synagogue. Instead, she suggests that Targum Onqelos might have fulfilled a function in the context of the early beth din and demonstrates that Pseudo-Jonathan can be linked with the rhetorical practices which abounded in later amoraic, educational circles.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Labels Used in the Book -- Electronic Texts -- Transliteration of Hebrew and Aramaic Consonants -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: A Historical Context for Pentateuch Targums -- Chapter 3: The Historical Roots of Targumic Interpretation of Genesis 1:26-27 -- Chapter 4: A Midrashic Framework for Targumic Renderings of Genesis 1:26-27 -- Chapter 5: Genesis 1:26-27 according to Fragment Targum (Recension P, MS Paris 110 ) and Neofiti 1 -- Chapter 6: Targum Onqelos and Genesis 1:26-27 -- Chapter 7: Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and Genesis 1:26-27 -- Chapter 8: Summary and General Conclusions -- Appendix -- Bibliography