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Latter Prophets, Babylonian Tradition. J. Ribera Florit, Biblia babilonica. Profetas
Posteriores (Targum) (Universidad de Barcelona: Varona, 1977), lvii+245
pp. J. Ribera Florit, Targum Jonatdn de los Profetas Posteriores en tradition
babilonica. Isaias (Madrid: CSIC, 1988), 319 pp. J. Ribera Florit, Targum Jonatdn
de los Profetas Posteriores en tradition babilonica. Jeremias (Madrid CSIC, 1992),
300pp.
4. Hagiographa
Palestinian Tradition. P. De Lagarde, Hagiographa Chaldaice (Osnabriick: O. Zeller,
1967 [1873]). E. Levine, The Aramaic Version of Lamentations (New York:
Hermon Press, 1976), 203 pp. E. Levine, The Aramaic Version of Ruth (Rome:
Biblical Institute Press, 1973), 146 pp. M. David, Das Targum Scheni. Nach
Handschriften herausgegeben (Berlin, 1898). P. Cassell, Zweites Targum turn
Buche Esther. Im vocalisirten Urtext mit sachlichen und sprachlichen Erlduterungen
herausgegeben (Leipzig-Berlin: Wilhelm Friedrich, 1885). F.J. Fernandez Vallina,
El Targum de Job. Edition critica (Madrid: Universidad Complutense, 1980).
M.F. Beck, Paraphrasis Chaldaica I Libri Chronicorum (Augsburg, 1680); idem,
Paraphrasis Chaldaica II Libri Chronicorum (Augsburg, 1683). R. Le Deaut-
J. Robert. Targum des Chroniques (Cod. Vat. Urb. Ebr. 1), I-II (Rome: Biblical
Institute Press, 1971).
Yemenite Tradition. A. van der Heide, The Yemenite Tradition of the Targum of
Lamentations. Critical Text and Analysis of the Variant Readings (Leiden: Brill,
1981), 55*4-193 pp. P.S. Knobel, Targum Qoheleth. A Linguistic and Exegetical
Inquiry (Yale: Yale University, 1976). A. Sperber, The Bible in Aramaic. Based on
Old Manuscripts and Printed Texts IVA. The Hagiographa (Leiden: Brill, 1968),
viii+205 pp. (I-II Chron., Ruth, Cant., Lam., Qoh., Esth.).
Sephardic Tradition. B. Grossfeld, The First Targum to Esther. According to the MS
Paris Hebrew 110 of the Bibliotheque Nationale (New York: Sepher-Hermon Press,
1983). L. Dfez Merino, Targum de Salmos. Edition Principe del MS. Villa-Amil
n. 5 de Alfonso de Zamora (Madrid: CSIC, 1982), 476 pp. L. Dfez Merino, Targum
de Job. Edition Principe del MS. Villa-Amil n. 5 de Alfonso de Zamora (Madrid:
CSIC, 1984), 389 pp. L. Dfez Merino, Targum de Proverbios. Edition Principe del
MS. Villa-Amil n. 5 de Alfonso de Zamora (Madrid: CSIC, 1984), 314 pp. L. Dfez
Merino, Targum de Qohelet. Edition Principe del MS. Villa-Amil n. 5 de Alfonso de
Zamora (Madrid: CSIC, 1987), 314 pp. C. Alonso Fontela, El Targum al Cantar de
los Cantares. Edition critica. (Madrid: Universidad Complutense, 1987),
viii+334 pp.
Conclusion
To abbreviate the very complicated history of the Targum we could
establish three stages: a) at the beginning there were the MSS; b) in the