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1.1 Introduction 1.2 Targum Jonathan: Witness and Translation 1.2.1 Paul Anton Lagarde 1.2.2 Wilhelm Bacher 1.2.3 Zacharias Frankel 1.2.4 Samuel Rolles Driver 1.2.5 Victor Aptowitzer 1.2.6 Paul Ernst Kahle 1.2.7 Pinkhos Churgin 1.2.8 Pieter Arie Hendrik de Boer 1.2.9 The Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest 1.2.9.1 Maier Vogel 1.2.9.2 Herman Helfgott 1.2.9.3 Yehuda Komlosh 1.2.9.4 Conclusion 1.3 Targum Jonathan: Text and Exegesis 1.3.1 Alexander Sperber 1.3.2 Samson H. Levey: Messianism and Dating 1.3.2.1 Messianism in TJon 1.3.2.2 The Date of TJon 1.3.3 Abraham Tal: The Date of TJon Revisited 1.3.4 Leivy Smolar and Moses Aberbach 1.3.5 Translators of The Aramaic Bible 1.3.6 Emiliano Martinez Borobio 1.3.7 Rimon Kasher and the Tosefta-Targumim 1.4 Conclusions 2 The Text of Targum Samuel 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Errors in Sperber's Edition 2.3 Manuscripts 2.3.1 Selected Manuscripts with the Complete Text 2.3.2 Incomplete Manuscripts, Fragments and Haftarot 2.4 Targum Samuel as Haftara 2.4.1 The Annual Cycle 2.4.2 The Triennial Cycle 2.5 Recapitulation 3 Exegetical and Translational Features 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Rhetorical Devices 3.2.1 Introduction 3.2.2 Phonetic Figures 3.2.3 Structural Figures 3.2.3.1 Repetitio 3.2.3.2 Adiectio 3.2.3.3 Detractio 3.2.3.4 Transmutatio 3.2.3.5 Immutatio 3.2.3.6 Summary 3.2.4 Semantic Figures 3.2.4.1 Repetitio 3.2.4.2 Adiectio 3.2.4.3 Detractio 3.2.4.4 Transmutatio 3.2.4.5 Immutatio 3.2.4.6 Summary 3.3 Exegetical Techniques and Theological Motives 3.3.1 Exegetical Techniques and the Middot 3.3.2 Exegetical Techniques in Modern Literature 3.3.3 Classification Model 3.3.3.1 Formal Methods 3.3.3.2 Exegetical Techniques 3.3.3.3 Stimuli and Motives 3.3.4 Classification of Exegetical Techniques 3.3.4.1 Demand for a Meaningful Basic Text 3.3.4.2 Demand for Clarity in the Co-text 3.3.4.3 Demand for Harmony in the Broadest Co-text 3.3.4.4 Actualization to the Translator's Context 3.3.4.5 Reverence for God and His People 3.3.4.6 Retention of Poetical Devices 3.3.4.7 Copyists' Concepts 3.3.5 Targum Samuel and the Tiqqune Sopherim 3.4 Targum Samuel and the Hebrew Chronicles 3.5 Literalism in Targum Samuel 3.6 Recapitulation 4 Semantic Studies in the Targum of Samuel 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Rendering of Certain Hebrew Words 4.3 The Usage of Certain Aramaic Words 4.4 Conclusions 5 A Commentary on TJon 1 Samuel 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The Birth of Samuel (1 Samuel 1) 5.3 The Prophecy of Hannah (1 Samuel 2:1-10) 5.3.1 Hannah's Song as Haftara 5.3.2 Hannah's Song as Prophecy 5.3.3 Links with the Psalm of David (2 Sam. 22) 5.3.4 Links with the Magnificat and the Benedictus 5.3.5 Commentary 5.4 Serving in Shiloh (1 Samuel 2:11-36) 5.5 The Call of Samuel (1 Samuel 3) 5.6 The Capture of the Ark (1 Samuel 4) 5.7 In the Country of the Philistines (1 Samuel 5) 5.8 The Return of the Ark (1 Samuel 6:1-7:17) 5.9 The Demand for a King (1 Samuel 8) 5.10 Saul Anointed (1 Samuel 9:1-10:16) 5.11 The Chosen King 1 Samuel 10:17-27) 5.12 The Siege of Jabesh-gilead (1 Samuel 11:1-13) 5.13 Samuel's Farewell (1 Samuel 11:14-12:25) 5.14 Saul and Jonathan (1 Samuel 13-14) 5.15 Saul and the Amalekites (1 Samuel 15) 5.16 David Anointed, Saul Departed (1 Samuel 16) 5.17 Against Goliath (1 Samuel 17:1-18:5) 5.18 Saul's Jealousy (1 Samuel 18:6-30) 5.19 David's Flight to Samuel (1 Samuel 19) 5.20 David and Jonathan (1 Samuel 20) 5.21 The Priests of Nob (1 Samuel 21-22) 5.22 Saul Hunting David (1 Samuel 23) 5.23 David Spares Saul I (1 Samuel 24) 5.24 David and Abigail (1 Samuel 25) 5.25 David Spares Saul II (1 Samuel 26) 5.26 David's Stay with the Philistines (1 Samuel 27) 5.27 Saul's Last War I (1 Samuel 28) 5.28 David in Saul's Last War (1 Samuel 29-30) 5.29 Saul's Last War II (1 Samuel 31) 6 A Commentary on TJon 2 Samuel 6.1 The Report of Saul's Death (2 Samuel 1:1-16) 6.2 David's Lament (2 Samuel 1:17-27) 6.3 David King of Judah (2 Samuel 2:1-7) 6.4 David Against Ish-bosheth (2 Samuel 2:8-3:5) 6.5 Abner Between Two Kings (2 Samuel 3:6-39) 6.6 The Report of Ish-bosheth's Death (2 Samuel 4) 6.7 The King and his Capital (2 Samuel 5) 6.8 The Ark of the LORD (2 Samuel 6) 6.9 David's House (2 Samuel 7) 6.10 Enemies and Friends (2 Samuel 8) 6.11 The Son of Jonathan (2 Samuel 9) 6.12 More Friends and Enemies (2 Samuel 10) 6.13 The Bathsheba Affair I (2 Samuel 11) 6.14 The Bathsheba Affair II (2 Samuel 12) 6.15 Amnon and Tamar (2 Samuel 13) 6.16 Absalom's Return (2 Samuel 14) 6.17 Absalom's Revolt Incited (2 Samuel 15-17) 6.18 Absalom's Revolt Put Down (2 Samuel 18-19) 6.19 The Aftermath of the Revolt (2 Samuel 20) 6.20 The Gibeonites' Revenge (2 Samuel 21:1-14) 6.21 Heroes and Adversaries (2 Samuel 21:15-22) 6.22 David's Psalm (2 Samuel 22) 6.22.1 The Date of TJon 2 Sam. 22:32 6.22.2 The Structure of 2 Sam. 22 6.22.3 Commentary 6.23 The Last Things (2 Samuel 23:1-8) 6.23.1 The Structure of TJon 2 Sam. 23:1-8 6.23.2 Commentary 6.23.3 The Messiah in Tg. 1 Chron. 11:11 6.23.4 Reward and Punishment in the Messianic Age 6.24 David's Heroes (2 Samuel 23:9-39) 6.25 Counting the People (2 Samuel 24) 7 Conclusions 7.1 Characteristics of TJon Samuel 7.1.1 Reverence for God and His People 7.1.2 Reverence for the Sacred Text 7.1.3 Theology of Revelation 7.1.4 Susceptibility to Poetic and Rhetorical Devices 7.1.5 Unity 7.2 The Early History of TgSam 7.2.1 Exegetical Techniques 7.2.2 Exegetical Choices 7.2.3 Lectionary Cycles 7.3 Poetry, Prophecy, Eschatology, Messianism 7.3.1 Poetry 7.3.2 Prophecy, Eschatology, Messianism