Sennacherib's Successor: Titus and Anti-Roman Rhetoric in TgJon to Isa. 10:32
As recent research in the study of manuscripts has demonstrated, variations in the phrasing of a text not only reveal scribal error or play but also indicate how changes to a given passage in different manuscripts convey important interpretive traditions. In this article, I explore one such case in...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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Aramaic studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 67-86 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Abraham, Biblical person
/ Sennacherib Assyria, King 745 BC-680 BC
/ Targum Jonathan
/ Titus Roman Empire, Emperor 39-81
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament HD Early Judaism |
| Further subjects: | B
Abraham
B Sennacherib B TgJon B Titus B Expansion |
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| Summary: | As recent research in the study of manuscripts has demonstrated, variations in the phrasing of a text not only reveal scribal error or play but also indicate how changes to a given passage in different manuscripts convey important interpretive traditions. In this article, I explore one such case in TgJon to Isa. 10:32. First, I examine how key features (or the lack thereof) in the biblical text of Isa. 10:32 led to certain lines of rabbinic interpretation as found in b. Sanh. 95b, which contains a midrashic story based on the biblical text. Second, I analyse a parallel account of this story as found in TgJon to Isa. 10:32, and I argue that a particular manuscript of this Targum (B. M. 2211) contains added layers of anti-Roman rhetoric through an allusion to Abraham and Nimrod. In this fashion, the variation in wording in this manuscript is indicative of a distinct interpretation from that found in the Talmud. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5227 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Aramaic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455227-01701005 |