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New "Trilinear Targums" Section
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ograabe Wrote:Are the Aramaic Targums different from the Peshitta Tanackh?

Yes, quite different. The Peshitta OT was a full-blown translation. The Aramaic Targums (Onkelos, Jonathan, etc.) are more like the written versions of the oral readings the Aramaic translator (the "Meturgeman") would recite in the synagogue after the readings in Hebrew.

Therefore the Targums have a lot more Hebraicisms than the Peshitta does, which flows more naturally in Aramaic. The creators of the Targums weren't so concerned with perfect Aramaic as they were with staying very close to the Hebrew, and containing just enough Aramaic to allow the people to understand.

The general term "Targum" simply means "translation", so even the Peshitta (and, the LXX and King James versions for that matter) are "targums" in a broad sense.
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New "Trilinear Targums" Section - by Paul Younan - 01-11-2008, 05:18 AM
Re: New "Trilinear Targums" Section - by yaaqub - 01-11-2008, 01:06 PM
Re: New "Trilinear Targums" Section - by yaaqub - 01-11-2008, 01:40 PM
Re: New "Trilinear Targums" Section - by yaaqub - 01-11-2008, 01:50 PM
Re: New "Trilinear Targums" Section - by Dawid - 01-11-2008, 02:23 PM
Re: New "Trilinear Targums" Section - by yaaqub - 01-11-2008, 02:38 PM
Re: New "Trilinear Targums" Section - by Dawid - 01-11-2008, 05:00 PM
Re: New "Trilinear Targums" Section - by yaaqub - 01-11-2008, 05:02 PM
Re: New "Trilinear Targums" Section - by yaaqub - 01-11-2008, 05:13 PM
Re: New "Trilinear Targums" Section - by ograabe - 01-13-2008, 05:10 AM
Re: New "Trilinear Targums" Section - by Paul Younan - 01-13-2008, 05:46 AM
Re: New "Trilinear Targums" Section - by Dawid - 01-13-2008, 12:05 PM
Re: New "Trilinear Targums" Section - by yaaqub - 01-13-2008, 02:03 PM
Re: New "Trilinear Targums" Section - by tomgear - 01-14-2008, 09:25 PM
Re: New "Trilinear Targums" Section - by yaaqub - 01-14-2008, 09:41 PM
Re: New "Trilinear Targums" Section - by yaaqub - 01-15-2008, 01:22 PM
Re: New "Trilinear Targums" Section - by Dawid - 01-15-2008, 06:51 PM

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