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A Glossary of Targum Onkelos
According to Alexander Sperber's Edition
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Targum Onkelos is the oldest complete Jewish Aramaic translation of the Pentateuch, and it has played a major role in Jewish exegesis throughout the centuries. Although the vocabulary of Onkelos has been included in the major rabbinic dictionaries, there has never been a volume devoted solely to the vocabulary of Onkelos. This glossary, based on the standard critical edition, includes all of the vocabulary of the targum, plus geographical names, with bibliographical references to cognates in other Aramaic dialects. It will be a major help both to students first encountering the language of the Targum, as well as to specialists seeking a thorough treatment of its lexical features.
Edward M. Cook, Ph.D. (1986), University of California at Los Angeles, is Associate Professor of Semitic Languages at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He has published a number of works in the area of Targumic and Qumran Aramaic, and is co-author of The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation (2nd ed., 2005).
"Cookâs glossary is a significant and most useful tool for all who study Targum Onqelos or Aramaic dialectology. He has earned our deep gratitude." â Steven E. Fassberg, in: Aramaic Studies, 2009
"This new Glossary of Targum Onkelos by Edward Cook is to be warmly welcomed, as it offers the reader a handy and reliable one-volume glossary of all of the vocabulary of Onkelosâthe most widely used Jewish Aramaic translation of the Pentateuchâfound in the best currently available edition of the targum, that of Sperber in an easily usable format. [...] Ed Cookâs Glossary of Targum Onkelos is an absolutely essential purchase for all libraries with an interest in Jewish, Biblical, or Theological studies, and it is clearly going to become a standard tool for many of our students." â David G.K. Taylor, Oriental Institute, Oxford, in: Hugoye13/2 (2010)
"This new Glossary of Targum Onkelos by Edward Cook is to be warmly welcomed, as it offers the reader a handy and reliable one-volume glossary of all of the vocabulary of Onkelosâthe most widely used Jewish Aramaic translation of the Pentateuchâfound in the best currently available edition of the targum, that of Sperber in an easily usable format. [...] Ed Cookâs Glossary of Targum Onkelos is an absolutely essential purchase for all libraries with an interest in Jewish, Biblical, or Theological studies, and it is clearly going to become a standard tool for many of our students." â David G.K. Taylor, Oriental Institute, Oxford, in: Hugoye13/2 (2010)
For all those interested in Jewish exegesis, the Aramaic dialects, and the history of biblical interpretation, as well as rabbis, seminarians, and specialists in Semitic langauges and the Ancient Near East.