Several years ago I stumbled across yet another ‘shorthand’ Targum fragment, raising the total number of currently known such manuscripts to five.5 This fragment is described and transcribed below, and its surprising relationship to one of the Taylor-Schechter shorthand Targum fragments is discussed.The shorthand system is the "first-letter-Serugin method," in which only the first letter of each word is written.
Cross-file under Aramaic Watch.
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