In commenting on another, unrelated post John asked, Would you please provide a concise definition of “targum.” I am planning to write a paraphrase with brief commentary on the Sermon on the Mount for Sunday’s sermon and make reference to the Targumim to introduce it. I hope John will chime in with some additional context [...]
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Ruth’s “Conversion” in Targum Ruth
As you all know I am working Targum Ruth. Those who know me well know that my interests are more with the exegetical concerns than linguistic issues. Still, one must slog through a translation at some point… Ruth 1:16-17 has received a lot of attention throughout the millennia. For the majority of its reception the [...]
IOTS 2010 Schedule Posted
The 2010 International Organization for Targumic Studies conference is nearly here! Held triennially as part of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, this year’s conference is in Helsinki, Finland during the first week in August. The program(me) has just been posted at the conference website and I will share it below [...]
Society of Biblical Literature 2010 Sessions Posted
SBL has published the sessions for the upcoming conference in Atlanta. The link is here and I will be presenting in the following three sessions (Sorry, all the links take you back to the SBL site. I will clean that up later.): Session Id TBD Aramaic Studies 11/21/2010 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM Room: Room [...]
Special SBL session: E-Publish or Perish
I have finalized our session for Aramaic Studies, which you can see below. I will actually be giving two papers relating to biblioblogging. (I think I might go back to Biblicablogs. I like that term myself. Anyone else have views on that?) The first will be part of the Blogger and Online Publication section, “Online [...]
