Onkelos on the Torah: Shmot"Onkelos on the Torah" is a unique and remarkable translation and English commentary of the Targum Onkelos, the first and only rabbinically authorised translation of the Torah. The Book of Exodus, the first of this five-volume set to be published. is a deluxe edition, which contains the Hebrew Massoretic text, a vocalized text of Onkelos and Rashi, Haphtarot in Hebrew with an English translation from the Aramaic Targumim, a scholarly appendix, and a "Beyond the Text" exploration of biblical themes. |
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Page xxiv
... avoid representing God performing such human acts as turning , breaking , fight- ing , making , consuming , helping , and also to evade suggesting a close physical relationship between God and humans , creatures , and inanimate objects ...
... avoid representing God performing such human acts as turning , breaking , fight- ing , making , consuming , helping , and also to evade suggesting a close physical relationship between God and humans , creatures , and inanimate objects ...
Page xxv
... avoid describing a human forgetting or approaching God , or , in other instances to serve as a dis- paraging substitution for " idol . " The Hebrew Elohim is spelled in the Bible in the respectful , majestic plural . Our targumist was ...
... avoid describing a human forgetting or approaching God , or , in other instances to serve as a dis- paraging substitution for " idol . " The Hebrew Elohim is spelled in the Bible in the respectful , majestic plural . Our targumist was ...
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... avoids the midrashic treatment of the word befarech , " with a soft mouth , " which implies that the Egyptians induced the Israelites to labor through the use of " soft , seductive words . " PARASHAT SHEMOT 1. These are the names of the ...
... avoids the midrashic treatment of the word befarech , " with a soft mouth , " which implies that the Egyptians induced the Israelites to labor through the use of " soft , seductive words . " PARASHAT SHEMOT 1. These are the names of the ...
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... avoids translating metaphors such as paru ( “ became fruitful " ) literally when he believes that they will not be sufficiently clear to the reader . GAVE BIRTH . The targumist is apparently uncomfortable with the biblical term ...
... avoids translating metaphors such as paru ( “ became fruitful " ) literally when he believes that they will not be sufficiently clear to the reader . GAVE BIRTH . The targumist is apparently uncomfortable with the biblical term ...
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... avoid suggesting a close anthropomorphic proximity between hu- mans and God ( p . 330 ) . THE LORD . Onkelos purposefully substitutes the name of God employed in this verse , Elohim , with the Tetragrammaton , the four - lettered ...
... avoid suggesting a close anthropomorphic proximity between hu- mans and God ( p . 330 ) . THE LORD . Onkelos purposefully substitutes the name of God employed in this verse , Elohim , with the Tetragrammaton , the four - lettered ...
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