Targumic Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections.

AuthorGrossfeld, Bernard

The numerous studies of the past four decades dealing with various targumic manuscripts from the Cairo Genizah have had a considerable impact on sundry targumic texts. Such studies demonstrate the importance of a reference work such as the one under review.

Klein has already focused on one particular targum in his earlier work: Genizah Manuscripts of Palestinian Targum to the Pentateuch (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1986). A grammar has been written of that targum: S. E. Fassberg, A Grammar of the Palestinian Targum Fragments from the Cairo Genizah, Harvard Semitic Studies, 38 (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990). The present work includes other targums, especially Onqelos, comprising 63% of the total of 1580 fragments contained in the Cambridge Collection. This volume identifies each of these fragments by the Cambridge Collection number; by biblical reference; by language (Hebrew, Aramaic, or Judeo-Arabic); by the identity of the targum; by type of script; vocalization type; presence or absence of accents; Massorah; the material upon which the manuscript was written; manuscript size; and colophon, if present. Of special interest is the description of the writing of the divine name at the end of each entry. Noteworthy are the 263 entries listed as "Babylonian" in the general index (p. 133). This number comprises...

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