The Yemenite Tradition of the Targum of Lamentations: Critical Text and Analysis of the Variant Readings

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Table of Contents
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0. Introduction
1. The Yemenite traditions and scholarly research
	1.1. History
	1.2. Culture
		1.2.1. Manuscripts
		1.2.2. Targum
		1.2.3. The Targum of the Megillot
		1.2.4. The Targum of Lamentations
		1.2.5. The Yemenite text and the “Western text”
			1.2.5.1. One-word variants
			1.2.5.2. Larger scale differences
			1.2.5.3. Shorter text in WT
			1.2.5.4. Mutually related
			1.2.5.5. Conclusion and hypothesis
2. The superlinear vocalisation and its use in Yemenite manuscripts
	2.1. The Babylonian tradition
		2.1.1. Text
		2.1.2. Linguistic tradition
		2.1.3. Vowel signs
		2.1.4. Pronunciation
	2.2. The Babylonian tradition in Yemen
	2.3. The Tiberian tradition in Yemen
	2.4. The Yemenite traditions of Hebrew
	2.5. The Babylonian tradition of Targum Aramaic
	2.6. A Tiberian tradition of Targum Aramaic?
	2.7. The Yemenite tradition of Targum Aramaic
		2.7.1. Tiberianisation
		2.7.2. Yemenite Targum manuscripts
		2.7.3. The Yemenite Targum of the Megillot
		2.7.4. Their quality
		2.7.5. The last stages
3. The manuscripts used for our text edition
	3.1. General
	3.2. Description
		3.2.1. A: Br. Libr. Or 1476
		3.2.2. B: Br. Libr. Or 2377
		3.2.3. G: Br. Libr. Or 2375
		3.2.4. D: Bodl. Libr. Op. Add. 4to 139
		3.2.5. H: Qafiḥ no. 8
		3.2.6. W: Berlin Or Qu 958
		3.2.7. Z: JThSA L 472b
		3.2.8. C: Br. Libr. Or 2374
		3.2.9. Representatives of the “Western text”
	3.3. “Stemma”
	3.4. The critical apparatus
4. The variant readings of our manuscripts
	4.1. Variant readings of a non-grammatical character
		4.1.1. Word order
		4.1.2. Omissions and additions
		4.1.3. Variants
			4.1.3.1. Variants of a general nature
			4.1.3.2. Related forms; persons of verb
			4.1.3.3. Variants of dalet and resh
			4.1.3.4. ḥamā and ḥazā
			4.1.3.5. Singular and plural
			4.1.3.6. Variants of suffixes, prepositions, de- and we-
		4.1.4. Errors, omissions and obscurities
	4.2. Spelling
		4.2.1. Matres lectionis
		4.2.2. Dagesh and mappiq, rafe, maqqef
		4.2.3. Consonantal /w/ and /y/
		4.2.4. Alef and he for final /ā/
		4.2.5. Samekh and sin
		4.2.6. Abbreviations
		4.2.7. Proper names
		4.2.8. Instances of ketiv/qere
	4.3. Vocalisation
		4.3.1. Dagesh and rafe
		4.3.2. The use of shewa (mobile) with gutturals and resh
		4.3.3. Shewa in other positions
		4.3.4. Variants of other vowels
			ā/a
			ā/e
			a/e
			a/i
			ā/o
			a/o
			ā/u
			a/u
			e/i
			e/o
			i/u
			o/u
		4.3.5. Ḥaṭef qameṣ and “qameṣ ḥaṭuf”
			4.3.5.1. Ḥaṭef qameṣ
			4.3.5.2. “Qameṣ ḥaṭuf”
	4.4. Morphology and syntax
		4.4.1. Morphological variants in lexical order. Verbal stems
			4.4.1.1. Introduction
			4.4.1.2. Verbs
				pe’el/pa’el
				pe’el/af’el
				pa’el/af’el
				pa’el/itpa’el
				af’el/itpe’el
				itpe’el/itpa’el
				pa’el/pā’el
				itpa’al/itpā’al
				itpā’al/itpō’al
			4.4.1.3. Glossary of non-classified variants
		4.4.2. Grammatical variants: Introduction
			4.4.2.1. Perfect
			4.4.2.2. Imperfect
			4.4.2.3. Imperative
			4.4.2.4. Infinitive
			4.4.2.5. Participle
			4.4.2.6. Verb with suffixes
			4.4.2.7. Pronominal suffixes
			4.4.2.8. Prepositions; Conjunctions, etc.
			4.4.2.9. Hebraisms
		4.4.3. Syntactical variants
			4.4.3.1. Gender and number
			4.4.3.2. Tenses
			4.4.3.3. Other syntactical variants
Bibliography
Indexes
Text and critical apparatus
Appendix I: Major variants of the “Western text”
Appendix II: Errors in Sperber’s text of MS Br. Libr. Or 2375