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The Aramaic Bible: Targums in their Historical Context

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66 <strong>The</strong> <strong>Aramaic</strong> <strong>Bible</strong>: <strong>Targums</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>their</strong> <strong>Historical</strong> <strong>Context</strong><br />

Onqelos to Genesis: MS 152 of the Jewish <strong>The</strong>ological Sem<strong>in</strong>ary of<br />

New York', <strong>in</strong> In Memoriam Paul Kahle (ed. M. Black and G.<br />

Fohrer; Berl<strong>in</strong>: Topelmann, 1968), pp. 62-78 (transcribes Targum<br />

Onqelos Gen. 39).<br />

Targum Onqelos Lev. 7.33-Deut. 32.21: MS 133a (ENA 1705),<br />

Yemenite, HT and Targum Onqelos, with 102 fols., superl<strong>in</strong>ear<br />

simple Babylonian vowels, twelfth century. Cf. A. Diez Macho, 'A<br />

Yemenite Manuscript for the Edition of Babylonian Onqelos, MS 133a<br />

(E.N. Adler Catalogue 1705) of the Jewish <strong>The</strong>ological Sem<strong>in</strong>ary of<br />

New York', Oriens Antiquus 6 (1967), pp. 215-220 (transcribes<br />

Deut. 28.15-51).<br />

Targum Onqelos Deut. 2.30-9.9; 9.28-10.16; 11.51-14.14; 15.14-<br />

28.12; 28.14-29: MS 131 (EMC 925), Yemenite, 34 fols., HT and<br />

Targum Onqelos, twelfth century.<br />

Targum Onqelos Exod. 3.22-8.15; MS 153 (EMC 48), Yemenite,<br />

12 fols., HT, Targum Onqelos and Arabic translation, superl<strong>in</strong>ear<br />

simple Babylonian vowels, thirteenth century. 37<br />

For the Former Prophets <strong>in</strong> Babylonian tradition, A. Diez Macho<br />

discovered several important MSS: (1) Jos. 8.21-9.3: JThS MS 230a, f,<br />

11, Yemenite, twelfth century, HT and Targum; (2) 2 Sam. 22.51-<br />

23.17; 1 K<strong>in</strong>gs 1.2-25: JThS MS 230, ff. 29-30, HT and Targum<br />

twelfth-thirteenth centuries; (3) Judg. 16.17-end; 1 and 2 Sam—2<br />

K<strong>in</strong>gs 5.21: MS 229 (EMC), 113 fols., HT and Targum, thirteenth<br />

century<br />

For the Latter Prophets <strong>in</strong> Babylonian tradition: Isa 35-38; 40-42;<br />

43: JThS MS 240 (EMC 73), 38 16 fols., HT and Targum, twelfththirteenth<br />

centuries. With all these MSS for the Prophets we have 132<br />

fols. for this tradition.<br />

As far as we know for the Hagiographa <strong>in</strong> the Babylonian tradition<br />

no Targum MS has been identified to date.<br />

Yemenite. <strong>The</strong> Yemenite tradition of the Targum is the best represented<br />

to date. Methodologically it is correctly presented by A. van<br />

der Heide or by E.Z. Melamed, and I put forward the pr<strong>in</strong>ciples and<br />

37. Published by Diez Macho, Manuscritos hebreos y arameos, n. 12,<br />

pp. 245-52.<br />

38. Published by Diez Macho, Manuscritos hebreos y arameos, n. 13,<br />

pp. 253-68.

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