Michael Klein on the Targums: Collected Essays 1972–2002

Michael Klein on the Targums: Collected Essays 1972–2002......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Foreword......Page 12
1. Critical Scientific Editions with Commentary......Page 13
3. Bibliographical Studies......Page 14
Article Credits......Page 18
Section I......Page 20
1 The Aramaic Targumim: Translation and Interpretation......Page 22
2 Converse Translation: A Targumic Technique......Page 38
I. Addition or Deletion of the Negative Particle......Page 39
II. Replacement of the Verb......Page 51
III. Resolution of the Rhetorical Question......Page 53
IV. Addition of the Negative Particle דלא Meaning “Lest”......Page 56
Conclusions......Page 58
3 The Preposition קדם (“Before”): A Pseudo-Anti-Anthropomorphism in the Targums......Page 60
The Palestinian Targums......Page 68
The Synagogues......Page 73
I. Introduction: The Old Testament......Page 78
II. Rabbinic and Medieval Jewish Literature......Page 79
III. Several Modern Views......Page 82
IV. Human Parts of the Body Attributed to God......Page 84
V. Pseudo-Anti-Anthropomorphisms......Page 86
VI. Mēmrā’......Page 88
VII. Syntactic Peculiarities of Some Anti-Anthropomorphisms......Page 93
VIII. Conclusions......Page 94
I. Introduction......Page 96
II. Associative Translation......Page 97
III. Complementary Translation......Page 100
VI. Epilogue: A Caveat......Page 107
Section II......Page 108
7 A Fragment-Targum of Onqelos from the Cairo Genizah......Page 110
8 Serugin (Shorthand) of Onqelos from the Cairo Genizah......Page 116
Postscript......Page 124
I. Additions to MS E......Page 126
II. Another Palestinian Fragment-Targum Identified: Additions to MS H......Page 130
III. Additions to MS D......Page 134
10 Heb. השלמות לכתבי יד מגניזת קאהיר—Complementary Fragments from the Cairo Genizah......Page 138
11 The Targumic Tosefta to Exodus 15:2......Page 152
Translation......Page 154
Commentary......Page 155
Conclusion......Page 159
12 Rimon Kasher and Michael L. Klein: New Fragments of Targum to Esther from the Cairo Genizah......Page 160
English Translation......Page 172
Bibliography of Textual Sources......Page 183
13 Introductory Poems (R’shuyot) to the Targum of the Hafṭarah in Praise of Jonathan Ben Uzziel......Page 186
Section III......Page 196
Introduction......Page 198
I. An Early Witness to the Triennial Lectionary of 141 Sidrot......Page 199
II. An Unattested Lectionary Division......Page 201
III. A Torah Lectionary......Page 202
IV. A Haftarah Lectionary......Page 203
Introduction......Page 208
1. Gen 35:22—The Story of Reuben......Page 210
2. Gen 49:4—Reference to the Story of Reuben......Page 211
4. Exod 17:11—The Battle with Amalek......Page 213
5. Exod 20:23/26—Laws of the Altar......Page 214
6. Exod 32—The Accounts of the Golden Calf......Page 215
7. Num 6:24–26—The Priestly Blessings......Page 219
Conclusion......Page 220
16 Text and Vorlage in Neofiti 1......Page 222
17 Deut 31:7,  תבוא or תביא?......Page 226
18 The Notation of Parašot in MS Neofiti 1......Page 228
I. Background: Modern Publication of the Pentateuchal Targum......Page 232
II. Publication of MS Neofiti I......Page 233
III. Readings and Interpretations......Page 235
IV. Corrected Errors......Page 245
V. Conclusions......Page 246
20 Elias Levita and MS Neofiti 1......Page 248
21 The Messiah “That Leadeth Upon a Cloud,” in the Fragment-Targum to the Pentateuch?......Page 254
22 An Updated Bibliography of Manuscripts and Editions of Palestinian Targum to the Pentateuch from the Cairo Genizah......Page 258
List of Editions......Page 260
Abbreviations......Page 261
The Genizah Manuscripts (in Biblical Order)......Page 262
Library Collections......Page 277
Afterword......Page 282
Articles......Page 286
Reviews......Page 288
Index of Modern Authors......Page 290
Scriptural references......Page 292
Targums......Page 301
Rabbinic sources......Page 311
Commentators......Page 312
Manuscripts......Page 313
Miscellaneous......Page 315
Illustrations......Page 316