Abstract

In light of the size of the book of Psalms and its multidimensional significance within Jewish tradition, it is perhaps surprising, at first glance, that the Aramaic version of Psalms has been relatively neglected when compared with the Aramaic versions of other biblical books. The fact that it has not been the object of a great deal of scholarly scrutiny may be attributed to any one of a variety of factors: its unwieldy size, its presumed late date, its non-employment in Jewish liturgy, or some combination of those phenomena as well as others. One of the serious deficiencies in the study of this Aramaic version in the past has been the absence of a critical edition; for the first two books of Psalms, we now have the 1988 work of Emanuel White, Critical Edition of the Targum of Psalms: A Computer Generated Text of Books I and II. Keywords: Aramaic Targum; Emanuel White; Jewish liturgy; Jewish tradition; Psalms

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