A Jewish Targum in a Christian world / / edited by Alberdina Houtman, Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman, Hans-Martin Kirn ; contributors Elodie Attia [and twelve others].

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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Superior document:Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, Volume 27
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; Volume 27.
Physical Description:1 online resource (325 p.)
Notes:Includes indexes.
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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.