Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the 1979 reprint
- Note on transliteration
- Note on bibliographical references
- List of abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION: THE BACKGROUND OF THE TARGUMS
- PS. JONATHAN ON SELECTED CHAPTERS OF GENESIS
- Appendices
- I The Biblical Antiquities of Philo: a translation of the passages related to Genesis
- II The Seven and Thirteen Rules of Interpretation
- III The Recognised variants in the Septuagint
- IV The Dotted Words in Genesis
- V The Tractates in the Mishnah
- VI Rabbinic Generations
- VII Cairo Geniza Fragments published in Kahle, Masoreten des Westerns, 11, part 2
- Bibliography
- Indexes
III - The Recognised variants in the Septuagint
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the 1979 reprint
- Note on transliteration
- Note on bibliographical references
- List of abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION: THE BACKGROUND OF THE TARGUMS
- PS. JONATHAN ON SELECTED CHAPTERS OF GENESIS
- Appendices
- I The Biblical Antiquities of Philo: a translation of the passages related to Genesis
- II The Seven and Thirteen Rules of Interpretation
- III The Recognised variants in the Septuagint
- IV The Dotted Words in Genesis
- V The Tractates in the Mishnah
- VI Rabbinic Generations
- VII Cairo Geniza Fragments published in Kahle, Masoreten des Westerns, 11, part 2
- Bibliography
- Indexes
Summary
Certain passages were recognised as having been changed by the LXX translators for legitimate reasons. B.Meg, 9a–b recorded the variants as follows:
‘“God created in the beginning”; “I shall make man in image and likeness”; “And God completed his works which he had made, on the sixth day, and he rested from his works … on the seventh day”; “Male with female partsd he created him”; “Now I will descend and there confound their tongues”; “And Sarah laughed among her relatives”; “For in their anger they slew an ox, and in their wrath they tore up a stall”; “And Moses took his wife and his sons, and made them ride on a carrier of man”; “And the sojourning of the children of Israel which they sojourned in Egypt and in other lands was four hundred (and thirty) years”; “And he sent the elect of the children of Israel”; “And against the elect of the children of Israel he put not forth his hand”; “I have taken not one valuable of theirs”; “Which the Lord thy God distributed to give light unto all the peoples”; “And he went and served other gods … which I commanded the nations should not be served”; they also wrote for Ptolemy, “and the slender-footed” instead of “the hare”, because Ptolemy's wife was called “Hare”, and he might have said, “They are mocking me by putting her name in Torah”.’
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- The Targums and Rabbinic LiteratureAn Introduction to Jewish Interpretations of Scripture, pp. 319 - 320Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1969