Exegesis in the Targum of Psalms: The Old, the New, and the Rewritten (Gorgias Dissertations, Volume 28: Biblical Studies, Volume 1)
Timothy Edwards
Language: English
Pages: 297
ISBN: 1463203810
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The Old, the New and the Rewritten illustrates how Targum Psalms creatively interprets selected psalms and how those interpretations relate to other Jewish and Christian traditions, including early translations of the psalms, rabbinic Midrashim, the New Testament and early Church Fathers. The study of these Psalms suggests viewing Targum Psalms as a creative partner in the world of biblical interpretation, as opposed to a compilation of already existing midrashic material. Edwards portrays the Targum as a link between the written and oral Torah that leads its readers on a path to tradition.
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adopted by the Babylonian community and revised there. See M. H. GoshenGottstein, “The Language of Targum Onqelos and the Model of Literary Diglossia in Aramaic,” JNES 37 (1978), pp.169–179; and E. Y. Kutscher, “The language of the ‘Genesis Apocryphon’: A Preliminary Study,” in C. Rabin and Y. Yadin (eds.) Scripta Hierosolymitana 4, 1958, pp.1–35. 25 26 EXEGESIS IN THE TARGUM OF THE PSALMS more probable therefore that the author(s) of Tg.Ps., if they had access to traditions of
Translation...................................................................................................234 Psalm 68.......................................................................................................235 Apparatus.....................................................................................................237 Translation...................................................................................................238 Psalm
whole Psalm is prefaced in JPS with the disclaimer that ‘the coherence of this Psalm and the meaning of many of its passages are uncertain’ (p.1182). 262 Thus taking the subject of קבלוas the princes of Judah, and the pronominal suffix in בתריהוןas the tribe of Benjamin. 263 Churgin (pp.39–40) lists this verse alongside the passages below from the Mekilta and TJ 1 Sam 15:17, but without any specific comment other than his prefatory points on p.31 that ‘many midrashic expansions [in Tg.Ps.]
men of Sodom and 1:5a to the flood generation. The sages disagree with his use of Psalm 1:5b to show that the men of Sodom will not stand in the judgment, as it only says that they will not stand with the righteous, and thus they will stand with the wicked and therefore will be in the judgment. It does however accept the association between Psalm 1:5a and the flood generation. Thus the whole dispute is around the interpretation of the root קוםwhen carried over from v.5a to 5b. 314 Is Tg.Ps.
meaning may not be far from the original context of the Psalm. C.f. M. Fishbane, Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985, p.149, who argues for 2 distinct lunar phases. 326 TG.PS. AND RABBINIC LITERATURE 99 Sound the Shofar in the month of Tishrei, when the moon that is concealed, the days of our feasts. 328 דתשריis an addition to the Hebrew that identifies in which month to blow the shofar. 329 בירחא דמתכסיtranslates בכסה. 330 This translation,