Targum of Psalms: Translated, With a Critical Introduction, Apparatus, and Notes: 16 (Aramaic Bible, 16) - Hardcover

Stec, David M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814654916 ISBN 13: 9780814654910

Publisher: Michael Glazier, 2004

Synopsis

This work provides the first translation into English of the Targum of Psalms, together with an introduction, a critical apparatus listing variants from several manuscripts and their printed editions, and annotations.

David M. Stec, PhD, is a lecturer in full-time research for the Dictionary of Classical Hebrew, a project of the University of Sheffield. He has also published a critical edition of the Aramaic text of the Targum of Job.

Martin McNamara, MSC, PhD, is Professor of Scripture at the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, Dublin. His other publications on the Targums and Judaism include Targum and Testament, Palestinian Judaism and the New Testament, and Intertestamental Literature. He is also project director of The Aramaic Bible: The Targums series, published by Liturgical Press. He has a licentiate in Theology from the Gregorian University, Rome, and a licentiate and doctorate in Scripture from the Biblical Institute, Rome. He has a PhD in early Irish biblical exegesis and has also written on Hiberno-Latin biblical literature and on biblical apocrypha in the Irish Church.

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Review:

[A]s a text-critical work for those interested in the reception of psalm texts in the Aramaic vernacular this is undoubtedly a publication worth purchasing and constantly consulting.Oxford University Press

“. . . provides for scholars and laymen alike a previously unavailable window on Jewish exegesis of the Psalms.The Master’s Seminary Journal

This is an important scholarly resource.International Review of Biblical Studies

Those interested in text criticism will be pleased with this addition to the series.The Bible Today

The publication of the English translation of the Targum of Psalms in the Aramaic Bible is most welcome and marks another step forward in scholarship related to this long-neglected part of the targumic tradition.Catholic Biblical Quarterly

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This work provides the first translation into English of the Targum of Psalms, together with an introduction, a critical apparatus listing variants from several manuscripts and their printed editions, and annotations.?This is an important scholarly resource.? International Review of Biblical Studies?The publication of the English translation of the Targum of Psalms in the Aramaic Bible is most welcome and marks another step forward in scholarship related to this long-neglected part of the targumic tradition.? Catholic Biblical Quarterly?Those interested in text criticism will be pleased with this addition to the series.? The Bible Today?. . . provides for scholars and laymen alike a previously unavailable window on Jewish exegesis of the Psalms.? The Master?s Seminary Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Glazier
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0814654916
• ISBN 13: 9780814654910
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272