The Liturgical Targum: The Aramaic Translation of the Torah in Mahzorim - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jeroen VerrijssenSeries:Supplement to Aramaic StudiesTheme:Religious Orientation/JewishPublish date:2/12/2026Pages:196
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004748828ISBN-10:9004748822UPC:9789004748828Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:JudaismBook Topic:Sacred WritingsSize:9.25 x 6.10 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.472Product ID:SC0XY141TH
What happens when a community continues to recite and transmit sacred texts it no longer understands? The Targum, or Aramaic translation of the Hebrew Bible, found its origins in the first centuries CE, and yet Jewish communities continued to transmit its contents well into the Middle Ages, when knowledge of Aramaic was considered to be scarce. This book explores the Liturgical Targum as it appears in festival prayerbooks (mahzorim). Drawing on previously unpublished manuscript fragments, it traces how different Jewish communities adopted and adapted the Aramaic translation in their liturgies. Readers of this book will discover how layers of copying, reinterpretation, and scribal creativity shaped the textual history of the Targum.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:BrillISBN-13:9789004748828ISBN-10:9004748822UPC:9789004748828Book Category:ReligionBook Subcategory:JudaismBook Topic:Sacred WritingsSize:9.25 x 6.10 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.472Product ID:SC0XY141TH
Jeroen Verrijssen, Ph.D. (2024), is a postdoctoral researcher of History at Ghent University. He has published on the transmission of Hebrew and Aramaic textual traditions, as well as their reception from Antiquity to the Medieval periods.
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