[b-hebrew] Hebrew & Aramaic
James Christian
jc.bhebrew at googlemail.com
Fri Jan 22 10:18:46 EST 2010
My understanding is that Targumim was largely a Babylonian Jewish
initiative.
2010/1/22 Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon at gmail.com>
> Something that might point to the era when Aramaic was more spoken in
> Judea than Hebrew is the development of the Targumim. These were
> intended to be read along with the Hebrew text in the synagogue: the
> reader would read a verse (in Hebrew) and the meturgaman would translate
> it into Aramaic. This was the custom during the Talmudic era; does
> anyone have data as to when this began?
>
> (Interestingly, the only Jewish communities I know of that preserved
> this practice are the Yemenites, whose traditions maintain that their
> ancestors did not follow Zerubavel or Ezra back to Israel but remained
> in place since the first Exile.)
>
> —Joel C. Salomon
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