Studies in the Language of Targum Canticles: with Annotated Transcription of Geniza Fragments (Supplement to Aramaic Studies, #18)

by Paul Moore

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Targum Canticles, composed in the dialectally eclectic idiom of Late Jewish Literary Aramaic (LJLA), had immense historic popularity among Jewish communities worldwide. In this work, Paul R. Moore thoroughly analyses several of the Targum’s grammatical peculiarities, overlooked by previous studies. Through this prism, he considers its literary influences, composition, and LJLA as a precursor of the highly eccentric Aramaic of the 13th century Spanish cabalistic masterpiece, The Zohar. The study includes transcriptions and analysis of the previously unpublished of fragments of the Targum from the Cairo Geniza, and what is possibly its earliest, known translation into Judaeo-Arabic.
  • ISBN13 9789004517103
  • Publish Date 18 August 2022
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country NL
  • Imprint Brill