[Avodah] Targumim from Sinai

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Tue, 19 May 2009 23:59:29 -0700
Simon Montagu <simon.montagu at gmail.com> wrote:

> RSBA reminded me in an Areivim thread that the Targumim are from
> Sinai. This surprised me at first, because my memory was that at most
> they are described as "beRuahh hakodesh", but I was wrong: the Taz on
> SA OH 285 SK 2 explicitly says "hatargum yesh lo ma`ala she-nittan
> besinai".

You want to read Rav M. M. Kasher's typically masterful discussion
under the rubric "Targum Mi'Sinai" in his Torah Sheleimah (Vol. XVII,
pp. 315-319).

> I have a number of questions on this.
> 
> 1) Is there an earlier source?

Yes - Taz is apparently echoing Semag citing Rav Amram Gaon citing Rav
Natronai Gaon; R. Kasher discusses this Semag at length.

Yitzhak
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