Studies in the language of Targum Canticles: with annotated transcription of Geniza fragments

"Targum Canticles, composed in the dialectally eclectic idiom of Late Jewish Literary Aramaic (LJLA), had immense historic popularity among Jewish communities worldwide. In this work, Paul R. Moore thoroughly analyses several of the Targum's grammatical peculiarities, overlooked by previou...

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Main Author: Moore, Paul R. (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill [2022]
In: Supplement to Aramaic studies (volume 18)
Year: 2022
Reviews:[Rezension von: New perspectives on ritual in the Biblical world] (2023) (Davis, Andrew R., 1978 -)
Series/Journal:Supplement to Aramaic studies volume 18
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Targum / Zohar
IxTheo Classification:HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Bible. Song of Solomon Aramaic
B Aramaic language Grammar
B Aramaic language Texts
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Summary:"Targum Canticles, composed in the dialectally eclectic idiom of Late Jewish Literary Aramaic (LJLA), had immense historic popularity among Jewish communities worldwide. In this work, Paul R. Moore thoroughly analyses several of the Targum's grammatical peculiarities, overlooked by previous studies. Through this prism, he considers its literary influences, composition, and LJLA as a precursor of the highly eccentric Aramaic of the 13th century Spanish cabalistic masterpiece, The Zohar. The study includes transcriptions and analysis of the previously unpublished of fragments of the Targum from the Cairo Geniza, and what is possibly its earliest, known translation into Judaeo-Arabic"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9004517103