The Aramaic Bible: Targums in their Historical Context

MANGAN Similarities between Targum Job & Targum Qohelet 351
The 'Evil'
generation:
Sin:
Addition of
'The wicked':
Punishment for Sin:
Repentance:
Redemption:
Forgiveness:
Reward/Punishment in the
World to Come:
Judgment:
Standing in judgment
before the Lord:
(Great) Judgment
Day:
Gehenna:
Targum Job
4.8; 6.17; 22.17; 24.2
4.4; 7.12; 14.4;
24.24; 27.13
4.19; 5.16; 6.10;
9.13; 12.5; 14.12, 14
20.23; 24.17; 27.13
3.17; 14.4-5; 15.20;
24.23
5.4; 19.25
14.4
5.4; 15.21
1.21; 10.16
1.6; 2.1
1.6; 2.1; 10.15
2.11; 3.17; 5.4, 7; 8
15.21; 17.6; 20.26;
28.5; 38.17,23
Angels and Demons
Targum Qohelet
1.4; 3.16; 6.8 7
1.4, 13, 18; 3.16; 7.9;
8.6, 14
3.18; 4.12; 5.6, 7;
7.3
2.12, 14; 4.2, 12;
7.3,25; 8.6; 11.8
1.15; 3.18-19; 4.17;
7.2, 20; 8.12
10.19
3.18; 7.9; 10.4
2.11; 4.9; 5.9, 10, 11,
12, 15, 18
4.6; 5.5; 9.3; 11.8
12.7
2.25; 3.15, 17; 7.15;
8.8; 12.14
5.5; 6.6; 8.10; 9.14,
15; 10.11; 11.10
Both Targums insert the mention of angels and demons frequently
into the text. Those in common include:
Judging Angel:
Angel bringing
death:
Targum Job
33.23
18.13; 28.22
Targum Qohelet
5.5; 12.5
10.9
7. Targum Qohelet qualifies 'generation' by 'evil' while Targum Job links the
evil generation to that of the time of the Flood.
8. In a variant in some manuscripts: see Fernandez Vallina, El Targum de Job,
p. 164.