Note: This article is provided here to make the information within publicly available. Redating the Palestinian Targumim Abstract Against the prevailing view that the Palestinian Targumim are to be dated in the third century CE this article proposes that they should be redated as early first century writings. Following a consideration of the manuscripts (the four Qumran Targumim, Targum Neofiti, Fragment Targums and Cairo Genizah Fragments) the arguments concerning their linguistic and editorial aspects as well as their special content are re-analysed in light of the available evidence. These arguments which have contributed to the traditional date reveal themselves instead as all pointing to a necessary redating of the texts and the traditions contained therein to the first half of the first century. This date presents scholars with a collection of theological writings from inter-testamentary times with which new aspects of the New Testament and other texts may ...
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