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Targum and Testament Revisited: Aramaic Paraphrases of the Hebrew Bible: A Light on the New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

Targum and Testament Revisited is a new edition of a text first published in 1972, now revised in light of research during the intervening period. In his introduction Martin McNamara details significant developments in the field, ending with a note on the tell-like structure of targumic tradition, with interpretations from different ages, also showing the presence of continuity in interpretation...

from an Aramaic approach. In view of their history, the Targums are of less moment for reconstructing the dialect of Jesus than are the discoveries at Qumran, Naḥal Ḥeber and Murabbaʿat. (6) A Targum of a date later than the New Testament might, on occasion, represent a tradition which was current in the period of the New Testament, albeit not in a targumic context (instancing Pseudo-Jonathan Leviticus 22:18 and Luke 6:36 (“be merciful …”). (7) On rare occasions, a Targum might provide us with a
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