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By Alinda Damsma

ISBN-10: 9004229906

ISBN-13: 9789004229907

This booklet specializes in the extra liturgical and replacement readings of Targum Ezekiel, the so-called Targumic Toseftot. The severe textual content, translation, and remark are offered with detailed connection with the lengthy segments of exact mystical lore which are preserved within the Targumic Toseftot to Ezekiel 1, the bankruptcy which describes the prophet’s imaginative and prescient of the celestial chariot. This particular manuscript fabric sheds gentle on a comparatively darkish bankruptcy within the reception background of early Jewish mystical lore, being heavily with regards to the Hekhalot literature, and to the Shi‛ur Qomah culture particularly. the quantity concludes with a scientific remedy of the Targumic Toseftot to Ezekiel on the subject of their Aramaic dialect, date and provenance, in addition to their old and social environment.

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Wright, Homilies of Aphraates, vol. 1, p. 70; C. ), Commentaire d’Išo‛dad de Merv sur l’Ancien Testament. Vol. VI. S, 185; Louvain: Peeters, 1981), p. 179; cf. Payne Smith, Syriac Dictionary, p. 39. For examples in Mandaic see Drower, CPB, pp. 17–18; cf. idem, Mandaic Dictionary, p. 57. 33 The mentioning of the creatures’ knees contradicts rabbinic lore about the ḥayyot, see my comments on line 29. 34 ‫ ] אטמי‬The only Targumic occurrences of the noun ‫עטמא‬/‫‘ אטמא‬side, thigh, flank’ are found in our Targumic Tosefta and TgSheni 1:2.

Wright, Homilies of Aphraates, vol. 1, p. 70; C. ), Commentaire d’Išo‛dad de Merv sur l’Ancien Testament. Vol. VI. S, 185; Louvain: Peeters, 1981), p. 179; cf. Payne Smith, Syriac Dictionary, p. 39. For examples in Mandaic see Drower, CPB, pp. 17–18; cf. idem, Mandaic Dictionary, p. 57. 33 The mentioning of the creatures’ knees contradicts rabbinic lore about the ḥayyot, see my comments on line 29. 34 ‫ ] אטמי‬The only Targumic occurrences of the noun ‫עטמא‬/‫‘ אטמא‬side, thigh, flank’ are found in our Targumic Tosefta and TgSheni 1:2.

After this, the heads of the creatures appear, which are as high as from the earth to the height line 51 of the heavens and corresponding to the seven heavens and 18 chapter two their thickness, and corresponding to the soles of the feet of the creatures and the ankles line 52 of the creatures and the calves of the creatures and the thighs of the creatures and the knees of the creatures and the flanks of the creatures and the buttocks line 53 of the creatures and the backs of the creatures and the loins of the creatures and the wings of the creatures and the shoulders of the creatures and the necks of the creatures.

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