Abstract
Aramaic version of Jonah like another Targums testifi es, the targum was expected to reconcile the two functions of translation and interpretation. Extant targum texts witness to a Bible version that was heard and assimilated by the populace during centuries of literary and linguistic evolution. For the Targum of Jonah assumes the authorship of a meturgeman or targumist who composed this targum for performance in the synagogue on Yom Kippur, for a community that would supposedly be able to understand all the implicit references to various rabbinic traditions. In the Targum of Jonah refl ect the infl uence of jewish Ideology concerns of three aspects: 1) polemical with Christian exegesis; 2) liturgical – Yom Kippur worhisp; 3) doctrinal – attribute of God.
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