Name: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Daytime Telephone: __ Date: _______ Shipping Address: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ City: __________________ ________ State/Province: ______________ __________ Postal Code: ____________________ Item Number (ISBN) Price Quantity Book Title, Author Total 978-1-60258-382-5 The Targums, Flesher/Chilton $69.95 *Sales Tax **Shipping TOTAL * Residents of GA, IL, KY, NC, NE, NY, OK, PA, SC, TX, VA and Washington D.C. should add all applicable sales tax to any order ** Shipping: In the U.S., please include $5 for the rst book and $1 for each additional book. Outside the U.S. please include $10 for the rst book and $6 for each additional book. Mail order form and payment to: Hopkins Fulllment Services P.O. Box 50370 Baltimore, MD 21211-4370 USA If you would prefer to order by phone, fax, or the Internet: www.baylorpress.com Phone: 1-800-537-54 87 Fax: 410-516-6998 Credit Card Number: _________________ ______ Exp. Date: _ Signature: _______________ ____ Security Code: _________ (Last 3 digits on back of card) Visa Discover MasterCard AmEx Check (payable to Hopkins Fulllment Services) $69.95 • 978-1-60258-382-5• 575 pages Paperback • 6 x 9 •July 2011 The Targums Paul V. M. Flesher is Associate Proessor o Religious Studies and Director o the Religious Studies Program at the University o Wyoming. Flesher is past president o the International Organization or Targumic Study and is the ounding editor o Studies in the Aramaic Interpretation o Scripture. “The most complete and up-to-date introduction to Targums, with clear presentation o current research, o issues involved, including T argums and the New T estament, and a rich bibliography. An outstanding achievement. Highly recommended.” —Dr. Martin McnaMara, Emeus Pofesso of Spue, Mllow isue, Dubl, ield The value and signifcance o the targums—translations o the Hebrew Bible into Aramaic, the language o Palestinian Jews or centuries ollowing the Babylonian Exile—lie in their approach to translation: within a typically literal rendering o a text, they incorporate extensive exegetical material, additions, and paraphrases. These alterations reveal important i normation about Second T emple Judaism, its interpretation o its bible, and its belies. This remarkable survey introduces critical knowledge and insights that have emerged over the past sixty years, including targum manuscripts discovered this century and targums known in Aramaic but only recently translated into English. Prolifc scholars Flesher and Chilton guide readers in understanding the development o the targums, their relationship to the Hebrew Bible, their dates, their language, their place in the history o Christianity and Judaism, and their theologies and methods o interpretation. BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS Paul V. M. Flesher & BruCe Chilton baylorpress.com facebook.com/BaylorPress @Baylor_Press a CritiCal introDuCtion Chilton and Flesher have fnally given us the critical introduction to the Targums that has been needed or decades. the tums is an excellent book that defnes and explains these important Aramaic translations o Hebrew Scripture with with nuance and insight. Anyone interested in biblical interpretation--Jewish or Christian-- must read this book. I recommend it with enthusiasm. —craig a. EvanS, Pyz Dsushed Pofesso of new tesme, ad Dy collee, no So, cd Bruce Chilton is Bernard Iddings Bell Proessor o Religion at Bard College in Annandale, New York. His previous books include the gloy of isel, tum appohes o he gospels , and a glle rbb d Hs Bble.