The Aramaic Bible: Targums in their Historical Context

KLEIN Cairo Genizah Targum Texts 19
Oxford and Leningrad served as the single major resource for the
study of the Palestinian targumim for nearly half a century. (The
appearance of Diez Macho's edition, Neophyti /, which presented the
only extant complete text of a Palestinian Targum, began in 1968, and
was not completed until 1978.)
In the course of his perusal of biblical fragments in the Genizah
collections at the three above-mentioned libraries, Kahle collected
fragments of only seven distinct manuscripts of Palestinian Targum.
However, from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s, quite a number of
scholars became involved in the discovery and publication of additional
fragments belonging to Kahle's seven manuscripts and to many
other previously unknown copies of Palestinian Targum. The list
includes veteran targumists as well as younger scholars, namely,
Baars, Diez Macho, Foster, Grelot, Kahser, Klein, Komlosh, Lund,
Riiger and White (I hope I have not excluded anyone). 3 In addition,
Diez Merino, Kahle, Revell, Weil and Yeiven uncovered a number of
Genizah fragments of targumic massorah, which have furthered our
understanding of Onqelos and its development. 4
3. For bibliographical references, see M.L. Klein, Genizah Manuscripts of
Palestinian Targum to the Pentateuch (Cincinnati: HUC Press, 1986), I, p. xliii. The
fragments discovered by Julia Foster, Shirley Lund and Richard White were
published in this work.
4. See L. Diez Merino, 'The Targumic Masora of the Vat. Ebr. 448', in
Estudios Masoreticos (V Congreso de la IOMS; ed. E. Fernandez Tejero; Madrid:
Institute 'Arias Montano' C.S.I.C., 1983), pp. 151-84; P. Kahle, Masoreten des
Ostens (Leipzig, 1913), p. 7; G.E. Weil, 'La Massorah Magna du Targum du
Pentateuque: Nouveaux fragments et autres', Textus 4 (1964), pp. 30-54; idem,
'Fragment d'une Massorah alphabetique du Targum babylonien du Pentateuque
(Concordance des Paraphrases Hapax)', Annual of Leeds University Oriental Society
5 [1963-65] (Leiden, 1966), pp. 114-31; idem, 'Nouveau fragment de la Massorah
magna du Targum de Babylone', in In Memoriam Paul Kahle (ed. M. Black and
G. Fohrer; BZAW, 103; Berlin: Topelmann, 1968), pp. 241-53; idem, 'Un fragment
de la Massorah Magna du Targum du Pentateuque dans la collection D. Kaufmann de
Budapest (Ms. K.G.592 B.M.6)', in Jubilee Volume of the Oriental Collection
1951-1976 (Budapest, 1978), pp. 189-214; idem, 'Nouveau fragment massoretique
de la Massorah du Targum babylonien du Pentateuque (5) et de la Massorah Magna
tiberienne des Chroniques—Analyse methodologique', Textus 11 (1984), pp. 37-87;
idem, 'Second Fragment d'une Massorah alphabetique du Targum babylonien du
Pentateuque [6] (Concordance des Paraphrases Hapax a ou Faibles Occurrences)',
Textus 13 (1986), pp. 1-29; I. Yeivin, 'A Fragment of a Masoretic Treatise to
the Pentateuch and Targum Onkelos', in Henoch Yalon Memorial Volume