intervention on earth, his defeat of his cosmic enemies, and a new world order with paradisiacal conditions.37 In the Isaiah Targum there is a tendency to prefer the phrase “kingdom of God” (מלכות יהוה) when reference is made to the eschatological intervention of God. Although this Targum is of a later date (fourth century CE), it appears to contain the only extant witness of exegetical traditions that are also found in the New Testament.38 Perhaps motivated by a desire to avoid anthropomorphisms,