Exegetical Similarities and the Liturgical Use of the Targumim of the Megilloth
It has long been noted that the relatively expansive Targumim of the Five Scrolls share a number of ‘significant affinities’. These similarities, the expansive nature and structure, the admonition to study Torah and continue to perform good deeds, and the expectation of the coming Messianic era, sug...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2014
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Aramaic studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 108-120 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Aramaic language
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/ Targum
/ Liturgy
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| IxTheo Classification: | RC Liturgy TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
| Further subjects: | B
Targum Megilloth
day of judgment
messianic age
study
Torah
Salvation-history
exegetical motifs
liturgy
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| Summary: | It has long been noted that the relatively expansive Targumim of the Five Scrolls share a number of ‘significant affinities’. These similarities, the expansive nature and structure, the admonition to study Torah and continue to perform good deeds, and the expectation of the coming Messianic era, suggest that they are part of a larger agenda to remind their audiences of God’s guiding hand in Israel’s history and to promote piety. Possibly receiving their final form in the same period and in the same contexts, it seems that the festal use of the biblical texts led to their rather unique formation. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5227 |
| Contains: | In: Aramaic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455227-01201007 |