Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter.r.kirk AT ntlworld.com>]

Dave Washburn wrote:

> On Monday 16 June 2003 11:19, Peter Kirk wrote:
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> > When and where? What evidence do you have for the use of Aramaic
> > targumim, and for what date? Consider Randall Buth's evidence, in the
> > article whose reference I just posted, that the only Targum known from
> > the second temple period is that of Job, which may have been a special
> > case.
> >
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> Actually, the DSS included a Targum of Leviticus as well.  Would this also be 
> a "special case"?  The problem is, because of the accident of preservation, 
> we don't know how many Targumim the people of the scrolls had.  But the 
> presence of Targumim of at least two biblical books, as well as Aramaic 
> documents such as the Genesis Apocryphon and others, suggest that at least 
> some studied the Scriptures in Aramaic rather than (or perhaps in addition 
> to) Hebrew.
>
>  
Maybe. Randall Buth wrote the following, in his recent Jerusalem 
Perspective article based on an SBL talk:

^"The Aramaic portion of Leviticus 16 is much too brief to determine 
whether it was part of a liturgical reading or indeed part of a complete 
scroll of Leviticus."

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Peter Kirk
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