What is a Targum?
A Targum (plural Targumim) is an Aramaic translation and/or paraphrase of the Hebrew Bible. They are known from the Medieval period, but with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the twentieth century which included some Targumim (4QtgLev, 4QtgJob, 11QtgJob, and 6Q19), scholars have turned their attention to these important texts in an effort to discover something about how Jews living in the first century BC and first century AD interpreted the biblical text.
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