Lessons On The Aramaic Targums!This series of web pages provides free lessons to help you learn about the Aramaic Targums.
Home | Aramaic Targums | Lessons On The Aramaic Targums The Targums (or Targumim in Hebrew) are the 'official' Aramaic translations of the Hebrew Bible. When Hebrew started to decline as a spoken language in favour of Aramaic, Jews translated the Tanakh into Aramaic for wider availability in their spoken language. Those Targums or translations are still available today, and are an immensely valuable and under-utilized resource to help in understanding difficult passages in the Hebrew Bible. The following lessons on the Aramaic Targums are available. Introduction To the TargumsThis group of lessons provides general background information about the Targums, their history and their importance.
Targum OnkelosThese lessons discuss Targum Onkelos.
Targum JonathanThese lessons discuss Targum Jonathan.
Targum Pseudo-JonathanThese lessons discuss Targum Pseudo-Jonathan.
Targum NeofitiThese lessons discuss Targum Neofiti.
NT Quotes From The TargumsThese lessons discuss passages in the New Testament which quote from the Targums. These examples demonstrate the strong connection between the NT and the Targums.
Make sure you look at our lessons on Learning Aramaic and the History of Aramaic. We also have a series of pages about Biblical Aramaic, the Aramaic Old Testament (Peshitta Tanakh), and the Aramaic New Testament (Peshitta). We have a related group of introductory lessons on the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh at our sister site, AllThingsHebrew.Com, which you may be interested in. The Targums and the Aramaic Old Testament (Peshitta Tanakh) were translated from the Tanakh. Home | Aramaic Targums | Lessons On The Aramaic Targums |
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