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Reviews [ AS 2.2 (2004) 263-73] ISSN 1477-8351 Reviews Per ˚ A. Bengtsson, Passover in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Genesis: The Connection of Early Biblical Events with Passover in Targum Pseudo- Jonathan in a Synagogue Setting (Scripta Minora Regiae Societatis Hu- manorum Litterarum Lundensis, 2000–2001: 1; Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 2001), 88 pages. isbn 91 22 01927 8. SEK 193. This book is a brief study of how some important events in Genesis are connected with Passover in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan (one of the Palestinian Targumim). The events discussed are the story of Cain and Abel in Gen. 4 (Chapter 2), the circumcision of Abraham in Gen. 17 (Chapter 3), the visit of the angels to Abraham in Gen. 18 (Chapter 4) and Isaac’s blessing in Gen. 27 (Chapter 5). In the Hebrew text of three of these stories one finds vague temporal expressions (Gen. 4.3 µymy Åqm ‘at the end of days’; Gen. 17.26 hzh µwyh µx[b ‘that very day’; Gen. 18.14 d[wml ‘at the set time’) which in Pseudo-Jonathan are rendered with a so-called ‘translational doublet’: ÷synb rsbrab aymwy ¹wsm ‘at the end of days, on the fourteenth of Nisan’ (Gen. 4.3); amwy ÷rkb < ÷synb > r[ t[brab ÷ydh http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aramaic Studies Brill

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© 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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[ AS 2.2 (2004) 263-73] ISSN 1477-8351 Reviews Per ˚ A. Bengtsson, Passover in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Genesis: The Connection of Early Biblical Events with Passover in Targum Pseudo- Jonathan in a Synagogue Setting (Scripta Minora Regiae Societatis Hu- manorum Litterarum Lundensis, 2000–2001: 1; Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 2001), 88 pages. isbn 91 22 01927 8. SEK 193. This book is a brief study of how some important events in Genesis are connected with Passover in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan (one of the Palestinian Targumim). The events discussed are the story of Cain and Abel in Gen. 4 (Chapter 2), the circumcision of Abraham in Gen. 17 (Chapter 3), the visit of the angels to Abraham in Gen. 18 (Chapter 4) and Isaac’s blessing in Gen. 27 (Chapter 5). In the Hebrew text of three of these stories one finds vague temporal expressions (Gen. 4.3 µymy Åqm ‘at the end of days’; Gen. 17.26 hzh µwyh µx[b ‘that very day’; Gen. 18.14 d[wml ‘at the set time’) which in Pseudo-Jonathan are rendered with a so-called ‘translational doublet’: ÷synb rsbrab aymwy ¹wsm ‘at the end of days, on the fourteenth of Nisan’ (Gen. 4.3); amwy ÷rkb < ÷synb > r[ t[brab ÷ydh

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