06-12-2020, 12:58 PM
Do you disagree with any of this?:
_The Jewish Targums and John's Logos Theology_, John Ronning (2010), 315pp, 235
Today the Targums are little known. The Aramaic-speaking, Targum-conscious audience of the first century no longer exists. ....I would say that my study of the Targums has convinced me that in order to appreciate more fully the meaning of John's Gospel, both Jew and Gentile need to be familiar with the Targums, for the simple reason that so many points of interpretation in John seem to hinge on them. John must have expected Aramaic-speaking Jewish Christians to help their Gentile brothers in understanding the Jewish background to the Gospel, in order to grasp its full meaning.
_The Jewish Targums and John's Logos Theology_, John Ronning (2010), 315pp, 235
Today the Targums are little known. The Aramaic-speaking, Targum-conscious audience of the first century no longer exists. ....I would say that my study of the Targums has convinced me that in order to appreciate more fully the meaning of John's Gospel, both Jew and Gentile need to be familiar with the Targums, for the simple reason that so many points of interpretation in John seem to hinge on them. John must have expected Aramaic-speaking Jewish Christians to help their Gentile brothers in understanding the Jewish background to the Gospel, in order to grasp its full meaning.