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Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Place names in Targum Onkelos

PROF. MICHAEL AVIOZ: Targum Onkelos and the Translation of Place Names (TheTorah.com).
The standard Aramaic translation of the Torah, Targum Onkelos, usually renders place names in the original Hebrew or leaves them out. However, there are exceptions.

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