[Avodah] Targumim from Sinai

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R"n toby Katz wrote:
> ... but this is what I think it means:  not that the actual
> Aramaic words used by Onkelos were given on Sinai together
> with the Torah [who even spoke Aramaic back then? Why would
> Hebrew-speaking Israelites need a translation in a language
> they did not even speak?]

I've heard it argued that they *did* speak Aramaic for regular conversation. (I don't remember where I heard that. Possibly the Vayoel Moshe. Sorry.)

Akiva Miller

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