The Rabbinic Targum of Lamentations: Vindicating God.(Book review)

From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: July 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

The Rabbinic Targum of Lamentations: Vindicating God. By CHRISTIAN M. M. BRADY. Studies in Aramaic Interpretation of Scripture, vol. 3. Leiden: BRILL, 2003. Pp. x + 187. $65.

This volume consists of an analytic study of the Targum of Lamentations in three chapters and concludes with a fourth chapter containing "Textual Tradition and Principles of Translation" (appendix 1), "The Text of Codex Vaticanus Urbinas Hebr. I" (appendix 2), and "Translation of TGLAM" (appendix 3). A bibliography and a series of indexes round out the book. The important MS Codex Vaticanus Urbinates was ...

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