[Avodah] Targumim from Sinai

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 02:21:18PM -0400, Zev Sero answered R Simon
Montague:
: >1) Is there an earlier source?

: The gemara in Megillah takes it back at least as far as Ezra.

Isn't this an echoing of the shitah that the Torah was regiven in
Ashuris and Aramis in the days of Ezra, but was originally given
to Moshe in Ivri and LhQ (Sanhedrin 21b)?

I don't see the "at least as far as" if this is so.

I also find a meta-issue interesting. When it comes to halakhah, we
would assume it's a machloqes. When it comes to aggadia we ask:
: >2) How can this be reconciled with the gemara in Megilla?

Maybe we can't? There is already a machloqes about kesav which is
already linked to language in Sanhedrin -- why assum they can be
reconciled? Maybe this is a machloqes?

However, RSMontague's stance WRT aggadita is the usual one. I just
wonder why.

:> 3) Does it include Yonatan BU and Yerushalmi, or only Onkelos?

: If by Targum YBU you mean on Nevi'im, then quite possibly..

Since Nakh is not miSinai, how can a targum on them be? You seem to
be confusing the question of whether the attribution is accurate with
whether the attributed author was actually the author or the transcriber.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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