Is there a one volume English OT that has the Targums under each verse?
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Maybe so; I don't know of one. You'll get lucky.
It'd be rough sailing, since there's several Targum versions, some close (Onkelos) and others pretty wild (Pseud-J). And the other issue (when comparing) is you don't know 'when' on the targums, other than DSS fragments. Could be well into the 'Christian' period (for cultural impact). King messiah comes to mind.
Ok thanks. You know I don't know an awful lot about the Targums only what I was taught in seminary. Forget most if not all of it.
These translations were they what the Jews believed? because, from what I've looked at, it seems that some Targums are saying that Jesus and the Father were the Two Powers. The Supreme and the Lesser.
Doesn't that say that the Jews (correct word?) believed that the Messiah was Jesus? and that the Messiah was the son of Joseph and Mary? and yet today some Jews deny that Jesus was/is the Messiah and doesn't that go against the Targums?
Just trying to figuring this whole Bible/God thing out!!
I thought that when Aramaic became the common language and Hebrew was no longer understood, the Targums served as a paraphrase of the Hebrew - sometimes quite literal, sometimes expanding upon the Hebrew. I think that at first they were only on-the-fly in the synagogue and that when they were written, they were not authoritative ... but I certainly may remember incorrectly.
