The Targums of Ruth and Chronicles: Volume 19

by J Stanley McIvor, Derek R G Beattie

Overview

One approach to Chronicles would suggest that it was not considered an altogether vital component in the canon, but later it came to play a specific interpretative role. Others suggest that it came to be regarded as the authorized version of the history of Israel. 

In the Jewish liturgical tradition the Book of Ruth is read at the festival of Shavuot, or Pentecost, and it may be conjectured that the Targum originated in conjunction with this practice. The Targum of Ruth exists in a large number of manuscripts; the eight used in the present work are of European provenance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814654552
Publisher:	Liturgical Press
Publication date:	02/01/1994
Series:	Aramaic Bible , #19
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	7.26(w) x 10.42(h) x 1.08(d)

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Abbreviations    7
Introduction       9
   I.  The Targum and Its Manuscripts    9
  II.  The Contents of the Targum         10
 III.  The Origin of the Targum              11
 IV.  The Present Translation               12
  V.  Bibliography                                 18
Translation       18
Indexes            33