Studies in the Targum to the Twelve Prophets, from Nahum to Malachi / / by Robert P. Gordon.

• Superior document: Supplements to Vetus Testamentum, v. 51
• Author: Gordon, R. P.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1994.
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English
• Series: Vetus Testamentum, Supplements 51.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 177 pages).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This volume is concerned with the origin and development of the Targum to the Prophets, focusing for this purpose upon the Twelve Prophets (from Nahum to Malachi). A wide-ranging introductory chapter sets current research in context by surveying almost two centuries of Targumic study. It is argued that the evidence in the extant text for a Second Commonwealth phase in the Targum's history is meagre and that, in particular, the Qumran Habakkuk pesher is not dependent upon the Targum to Habakkuk. Other issues discussed are the Hebrew Vorlage of the Targum, incipit formulae, 'Additional Targum' and the standard Targum, the haggadah in the Targum to Zechariah 3 in the light of a (so-called) Eastern Aramaic linguistic element, Targum and Peshiṭta, land and divine presence, and the final redaction of the Targum.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Robert P. Gordon -- Introduction / Robert P. Gordon -- Chapter One: The Targum to the Latter Prophets in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Robert P. Gordon -- Chapter Two: Historical Allusions in Tg Twelve Prophets / Robert P. Gordon -- Chapter Three: The Hebrew VORLAGE of Tg Twelve Prophets / Robert P. Gordon -- Chapter Four: An Incipit Formula in Tg Prophets / Robert P. Gordon -- Chapter Five: Tg Habakkuk and the Habakkuk Pesher / Robert P. Gordon -- Chapter Six: Sperber’s ‘Addmonal Targum’ to Zechariah 2:14-15: Studying a Targumic Cento / Robert P. Gordon -- Chapter Seven: The Haggadah in Tg Zechariah 3: 1-5 / Robert P. Gordon -- Chapter Eight: Targum and Peshitṭa in the Twelve Prophets / Robert P. Gordon -- Chapter Nine: The Land and the Shekinah in Tg Twelve Prophets / Robert P. Gordon -- Chapter Ten: The Redaction of Tg Prophets / Robert P. Gordon -- Chapter Eleven: Summary and Prospectus / Robert P. Gordon -- Bibliography / Robert P. Gordon -- Index of Authors / Robert P. Gordon -- Index of Scripture References / Robert P. Gordon -- Index of Other Sources / Robert P. Gordon.