Abstract
Among the literary protagonists of Second Temple literature none looms as large as Moses, who called Israel from the bondage of Egypt to the heritage of the Tora. The Targums have long been mined for benefits other than their own intrinsic values. When the author takes issue with the motif of Moses's death and burial he inevitably finds both continuity and development between Second Temple literature and the Targums. Of course targumic interpretations of Moses's death and burial belong to the continuum of the reception history and undoubtedly the translators took up themes and motifs inherited from Second Temple literature, but simultaneously they transform them in ways primarily compatible with Amoraic Judaism's thinking. In the case of Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on the death and burial of Moses the halakhic parallel opens a venue which is most illuminating for the Targum itself. Keywords: Amoraic Judaism's thinking; halakhic context; Moses; Second Temple literature; Targum Pseudo-Jonathan; Tora
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