Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Wrench" <dellbert AT buckeyenet.net>]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this but I was wondering if
what is called the 'targums' are generally trustworthy?

What I mean is, I have read where they are Aramaic paraphrases for the
Hebrew scriptures. Are they 'too' parapharsical to get a sense of Jewish
thought at the time or do they generally present an accurate rendition of
the Hebrew thought, just perhaps stated differently?

Dan Ebert