[Avodah] Targumim from Sinai

[Arie Folger]

RZS wrote:
> That late, huh?  So what did Lavan speak?

The 10th Cent. BCE date is for when Aramaic is first attested in
writing. There are barely any surviving semitic texts from that era,
very possibly because they mostly wrote on papyrus and parchment,
rather than clay, the medium of choice in Sumerian and related
languages.

That said, regarding the main issue, it is hard to see why our
ancestors at Sinai would have cared for an Aramaic translation, but
then again, they would have been more likely to speak that than speak,
say, Swahili.

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