The Aramaic Version of the Bible: Contents and Context

269 Pages·1988·14.2 MB·English

by  Etan Levine

ETAN LEVINE
THE ARAMAIC VERSION
OF THE BIBLE
DE GRUYTER
Etan Levine
The Aramaic Version of the Bible

Etan Levine
The Aramaic Version of the Bible
Contents and Context
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Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York
1988
Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
Herausgegeben von Otto Kaiser
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Levine, Etan.
The Aramaic version of the Bible : contents and context / Etan
Levine.
p. cm. — (Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die
alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 174)
Includes the Aramaic text of the Bible with English translations.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-89925-459-4 (U.S.)
I. Bible. Ο. T. Aramaic-Theology. I. Bible. Ο. T. Aramaic. 1988.
II. Bible. Ο. T. English. Levine. 1988. III. Title. IV. Series: Beihefte
zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 174.
BS709.4.L48 1988
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Levine, Etan:
The Aramaic version of the Bible : contents and context / Etan
Levine. — Berlin ; New York : de Gruyter, 1988
(Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissen-
schaft ; 174)
ISBN 3-11-011474-7
NE: Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft / Beiheft
ISSN: 0934-2575
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments............................................................................................................. V
Preface......................................................................................................................................VII
Abbreviations ....................................................................................................................XIII
Introductory Essays.......................................................................................................... 1
I. The People and the B ook.................................................................... 3
II. The Language Barrier ........................................................................... 8
III. Tradition and Translation.................................................................... 14
IV. The Extant Targum s............................................................................... 20
V. The Aramaic Version as Textual W itness................................... 31
VI. General Characteristics of Targum ................................................. 37
The Aramaic Version of the B ible......................................................................... 43
I. Aspects of M onotheism ....................................................................... 45
II. The Name of God...................................................................................... 57
III. The Angelic, the Demonic, the O ccult...................................... 62
IV. Revelation Through Word and Wonder...................................... 74
V. On Divine Justice...................................................................................... 80
VI. Free Will and the Evil Urge................................................................ 93
VII. Israel of the Flesh; Apologetic Biography............................... 99
VIII. Imputed Merit and Imputed G uilt................................................. 107
IX. The Holiness Imperative....................................................................... 112
X. The Jerusalem Tem ple........................................................................... 117
XI. Repentance and Atonement................................................................ 124
XII. On Prayer........................................................................................................ 131
XIII. On Torah........................................................................................................ 135
XIV. The Legitimation of Pharisaic Authority................................... 142
XV. Pharisaic-Rabbinic Law and Institutions................................... 149
XVI. Contradictions of Pharisaic-Rabbinic L a w ............................... 154
XVII. History and Historiography................................................................ 167
XVIII. The Theology of E xile........................................................................... 173
XIX. Confronting Pagan Civilization......................................................... 181
XX. Anti-Christian Polem ic........................................................................... 188
XXI. Anti Moslem Polemic............................................................................... 194
XXII. The M essiah................................................................................................. 199
XXIII. The Resurrection and the Afterlife.................................................. 216
Select Bibliography..........................................................................................................227
XII Table of Contents
Source Index........................................................................................................................233
Index of Aramaic and Hebrew Term s...............................................................251
Subject Index........................................................................................................................253
Abbreviations
I. Journals and Reference Works
AB Anchor Bible
ABR American Benedictine Review
AJSR Association of Jewish Studies Review
Aug Augustinianum
BA Biblical Archaeologist
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BDB Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, cd. F Brown, S. R.
Driver and C. A. Briggs
Bib Biblica
BTB Biblical Theology Bulletin
CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly
CHB Cambridge History of the Bible, cd. P. R. Ackroyd and C. F. Evans
EB Estudios Biblicos
EJ Encyclopaedia judaica
HDB Dictionary of the Bible, ed. James Hastings
HTR Harvard Theological Review
HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual
ICC International Critical Commentary
1DB Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible
IEJ Israel Exploration journal
JBL Journal of Biblical Literature
JE Jewish Encyclopedia
JJS Journal of Jewish Studies
JNES Journal of New Eastern Studies
JQR Jewish Quarterly Review
JSJ Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman
Periods
JSS Journal of Semitic Studies
JTS Journal of Theological Studies
MGWJ Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums
NT Novum Tcstamentum
NTS New Testament Studies
PAAJR Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research
RE Revue Biblique
REJ Revue des Etudes Juives
RQ Revue de Qumran
SVT Supplements to Vetus Testamentum
VT Vctus Testamentum
ZAW Zeitschrift für die alttcstamcntliche Wissenschaft
ZDMG Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen Gesellschaft
ZNW Zeitschrift für die neutcstamcntlichc Wissenschaft
XIV Abbreviations
II. Classical Sources
M. Mishnah
NT New Testament
PRF. Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer
PRK Pcsiqta de Rab Kahana
Tan. Midrash Tanhuma
Tan. B. Midrash Tanhuma, ed. S. Buber
TB Babylonian Talmud
TJ Palestinian Talmud
Tos. Tosefta
III. Targum A bbreviations
FT Fragmentary Targum, acc. to The Fragmentary Targun7 of the Pentateuch, ed.
Michael Klein
MdW Massoreten des Westens II, ed. P. Kahle, acc. to fragments
N Vatican Ms. Neophyti 1, according to editio princeps
Mgl Marginal & Interlineal glosses on Ms. Neophyti 1
PsJ Pseudo-Jonathan acc. to Targum Jonathan ben U%%iel on the Pentateuch copied
from the I^ondon Ms: British Museum Add. 27031, ed. R.Rieder
PT Palestinian Targum (indicating two or more texts)
T Targum
Introductory Essays