The Aramaic Bible, Volume 11: The Targum Isaiah
Overview
While any translation of the Scriptures may in Hebrew be called a targum, the word is used especially for a translation of a book of the Hebrew Bible into Aramaic. Before the Christian era, Aramaic had in good part replaced Hebrew in Palestine as the vernacular of the Jews. It continued as their vernacular for centuries later and remained in part as the language of the schools after Aramaic itself had been replaced as the vernacular.
Designed for those who are beginning Targum study, this book also provides material for those who have already made some progress. Beginners will have recourse first of all to the Translation, and the Notes are intended to help orient them in the message conveyed by the Targum in its two levels. Students with recourse to Aramaic will perhaps require remarks of a linguistic and textual nature; these are given in the Apparatus. Additional material for more advanced students is also offered in the Notes, to help relate the exegesis of the Targum to the intertestamental document, Rabbinica, and the New Testament.
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- Offers a translation by experts in Aramaic and Hebrew
- Contains succinct verse-by-verse translation
- Preserves the particular and peculiar nature of the original Aramaic translations
Most Highlighted Verses in The Aramaic Bible, Volume 11: The Isaiah Targum
Isaiah 9:6: The prophet said to the house of David, For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and he will accept the law upon himself to keep it, and his name will be called before the Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, existing forever, “The messiah in whose days peace will increase upon us.”
Isaiah 9:7: Great pride will belong to those who perform the law, and for those who keep peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to establish it and to build it with judgment and with virtue from this time forth and forever. By the Memra of the LORD of hosts this will be done.
Isaiah 44:3: For just as waters are provided on the land of a thirsty place, and flow on the dry ground, so I will bestow my Holy Spirit upon your sons, and my blessing upon your sons’ sons.
Isaiah 52:7: How beautiful upon the mountains of the land of Israel are the feet of him who announces, who publishes peace, who announces good tidings, who publishes salvation, who says to the congregation of Zion, “The kingdomof your God is revealed.”
Isaiah 53:3: Then the glory of all the kingdoms will be for contemptand cease; they will be faint and mournful, behold, as a man of sorrows and appointed for sicknesses; and as when the face of the Shekhinah was taken up from us, they are despised and not esteemed.
Isaiah 53:4: Then he will beseech concerning our sins and our iniquities for his sake will be forgiven; yet we were esteemed wounded, smitten before the LORD and afflicted.
Isaiah 53:5: And he will build the sanctuary which was profanedfor our sins, handed overfor our iniquities; and by his teaching his peacewill increase upon us, and inthat we attach ourselves to his words our sins will be forgiven us.
Isaiah 53:6: All we like sheep have been scattered; we have gone into exile, every one his own way; and before the LORD it was a pleasure to forgive the sins of us all for his sake.
Isaiah 53:8: Frombonds and retribution he will bring our exiles near, the wonders which will be done for us in his days, who will be able to recount? For he will take away the rule of the Gentiles from the land of Israel; the sins which my people sinned he will cast on to them.
Isaiah 53:9: And he will hand over the wicked to Gehenna and those rich in possessionswhich they robbed to the death of the corruption, lest those who commit sin be established, and speak of possessions with their mouth.
- Title: The Aramaic Bible, Volume 11: The Isaiah Targum
- Author: Bruce Chilton
- Series: The Aramaic Bible
- Publisher: Liturgical Press
- Print Publication Date: 1990
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. O.T. › Targums--Translations into English; Bible. O.T. Isaiah
- Resource ID: LLS:ARAMAICBBL11
- Resource Type: Bible
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:09:35Z