The Targum Sheni, also known as the Second Targum of Esther, is an Aramaic translation (targum) and elaboration of the Book of Esther. Notably, the biblical account is embellished with a considerable amount of new apocryphal material in this book.
The text is sometimes referred to as the Second Targum of Esther to contrast it with another shorter targum on the Book of Esther: Targum Rishon, or the First Targum of Esther.[1] The relationship and similarities between the two have been an important focus of research by scholars.[2]
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The TargumSheni, also known as the Second Targum of Esther, is an Aramaic translation (targum) and elaboration of the Book of Esther. Notably, the biblical...
TargumSheni. However, according to the Encyclopaedia Judaica TargumSheni is dated to around 700 similarly the general consensus is to date Targum Sheni...
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"Haman the son of Hamedatha, descended from Agag the son of Amaleq." The TargumSheni gives Haman's lineage as follows: "Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite...
means that divine wisdom is not available anywhere other than in the Torah. Targum Neophyti (Deuteronomy 30:12) and b. Baba Metzia 59b claim that this text...
account compared with TargumSheni (also known as the Second Targum of Esther), and it is also significantly shorter, as TargumSheni is two and a half times...
generation and consequently an Amalekite. Haman's lineage is given in the TargumSheni as follows: "Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, son of Srach, son...
always clear from the context if the reference is to the Mishnah or the Targum, which could be regarded as a "doubling" of the Torah reading. Maimonides...
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Temurah, Keritot, and Me'ilah; the second dialect is closer in style to the Targum. From the time of its completion, the Talmud became integral to Jewish scholarship...
is now northern Ethiopia and Eritrea. In a Rabbinical account (e.g. TargumSheni, Colloquy of the Queen of Sheba), Solomon was accustomed to ordering...
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greatest care to keep himself aloof from every unseemly deed. According to TargumSheni Job's name was one of the seven engraved on the seven branches of the...
his great-grandfather Kish's exile — a reading which many accept. The TargumSheni gives his genealogy in more detail, as follows: "Mordecai, son of Jair...
tribe); but his father was Ur, of the stock of the Israelites." The TargumSheni, an Aramaic commentary on the Book of Esther written sometime between...
dead, and he spurned his birthright. Haman's lineage is given in the TargumSheni as follows: "Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, son of Srach, son...
date of the first Targum is about 700 (see S. Posner, "Das Targum Rishon," Breslau, 1896). TargumSheni, also known as the Second Targum of Esther, containing...
Middle Ages, of which three survive – the Targum Rishon ("First Targum" or 1TgEsth) and TargumSheni ("Second Targum" or 2TgEsth) dated c. 500–1000 CE, which...
"PSILOTHRUM", Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (3rd ed.), 1890 Colloquy of the Queen of Sheba, taken from the Aramaic TargumSheni of Megillat Esther....
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