Bilingual Concordance to the Targum of the Prophets, 21: Introduction, Additions and Corrections, Indices.

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Bilingual Concordance to the Targum of the Prophets, 21: Introduction, Additions and Corrections, Indices.

Title main entry. Ed. by Alberdina Houtman and Johannes de Moor. (A bilingual concordance to the targum of the prophets; v.21)

Brill Academic Publishers, [c]2005

453 p.

$200.00

The volume completes the printed edition of the Concordance. After reviewing the history of the project and the editorial policies used, it presents additions and corrections to the previous 20 volumes; an English-Aramaic index intended to be a useful tool for comparison with other exegetical traditions; and a cumulative Aramaic-Hebrew index listing all books where a certain combination occurs, allowing readers to establish the spread of a combination at a glance, and to consult the particular volumes to find details of the passages involved. Scholars have aspired to create such a concordance since the beginning of the 20th century, and work actually began in the 1960s, but the quantity of data overwhelmed the card-index technology available then. A new beginning was made in 1987 when personal computers that could process Hebrew characters became affordable, and the first volume was published in 1995.