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The Aramaic Bible: Targums in their Historical Context - The Library of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament Studies Royal Irish Academy

Brief Description: The twenty-six essays in this volume represent the papers read at the international Conference on the Aramiac Bible held in Dublin (1992). The purpose of the Conference was to bring together leading specialists on the Targums and related topics to discuss issues in the light of recent developments, for instance Second Temple interpretation of the Scriptures, Qumran Literature, targumic and Palestinian Aramaic, new Genizah manuscripts, Jewish tradition, Origen's Hexapla, Pseudepigrapha, Apocrypha and the Christian West. The papers are arranged under seven headings: Targum Texts and Editions; The Aramaic Language: The Targums and Jewish Biblical Interpretation; Targums of the Pentateuch; Targums of the Hagiographa; Targums and New Testament; Jewish Traditions and Christian Writings. The international team, drawn from nine countries, is as follows (following the order of the papers); M. Klein, S. Reif, L. Diez Merino, R. Gordon, M. McNamara, S. A. Kaufman, E. Cook, M. Hengel, O. Betz, A. Shinan, J. Ribera, B. Grossfeld, P. V. M. Flesher, G. Boccaccini, M. Maher, R. Hayward, R. Syren, P. S. Alexander, D. R. G. Beattie, C. Mangan, B. Ego, M. Wilcox, B. Chilton, G. J. Norton, B. Kedar Kopstein, M. Stone. Marc Notes: Published in association with the Royal Irish Academy.; The essays here published represent papers read at the international conference ... held at the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, July 1992--Pref.; Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contributor Bio:  McNamara, Martin J Martin McNamara is Emeritus Professor of Scripture at Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, Dublin.