Language:
English
Year of publication:
2019
Titel der Quelle:
Aramaic Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
17,1 (2019) 67-86
Keywords:
Sennacherib,
;
Titus,
;
Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish
;
Bible. Versions
;
Targum Jonathan
Abstract:
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.
DOI:
10.1163/17455227-01701005
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