When He Comes, Will He Build It? Temple, Messiah and Targum Jonathan
In exploring the possibility that ancient Judaism included an expectation that a Messiah would build the Temple, scholarship has been drawn to passages in Targum Jonathan which have been seen by some to evidence such an anticipation. The analysis of these passages offered in the present study sugges...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2014
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Aramaic studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 89-107 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Targum
/ Messiah
/ Temple
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| Further subjects: | B
Temple
building
Messiah
Targum Jonathan
Zechariah
Isaiah
2Samuel
Ezekiel
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| Summary: | In exploring the possibility that ancient Judaism included an expectation that a Messiah would build the Temple, scholarship has been drawn to passages in Targum Jonathan which have been seen by some to evidence such an anticipation. The analysis of these passages offered in the present study suggests that while TgJon was exegetically interested in those ‘Anointed Ones’ whom the Hebrew tradition had expected to build the First and Second Temples, its translation manifests no contemporary expectation of a Messiah who would build a new Temple in the meturgeman’s own time or the world to come. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5227 |
| Contains: | In: Aramaic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455227-01201005 |