Targum Translation

[Paul Younan]

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Hey Paul, can you tell me which English translation is being used in the Trilinear Targums you have up here at the site please? I sent you a message asking this, but never heard back, so I thought I might try again here...

Blessings,
Chuck

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Hi Chuck, unfortunately I do not know the answer to that question. I found the Targums online a while back and can't find the link. I do know the English is a translation of the Hebrew, and not of the Aramaic portion since at times they vary widely (beginning in Genesis 1:1, where the Aramaic has the placeholder for YHWH, whereas the Hebrew text has "Elohim"). There are some verses where the Aramaic goes on quite an explanatory binge, and the English translator did not note it.

Doing a cursory googling of some of the translated English verses yields no matches to any known version that is online, which makes me lean towards the theory that this was an independent translation by whoever made these PDF files.