[Avodah] Treifot question

[Dr. Josh Backon]

>RYBE did not translate the chumash.  What's published in Mikraot Gedolot
>as "Targum Yonatan" on chumash is certainly nothing to do with RYBE.
>Does anyone know who actually wrote it, or at least how old it is known
>to be?  And how reliable a source is it generally considered to be?

This is  called the Pseudo-Targum. Indeed, it was erroneously attributed to
Yonatan ben Uzziel instead of Targum Yerushalmi. (rashei teivot TAF YUD ).
A good proof that it couldn't have been written by Yonatan ben Uzziel is the
comment in Breishit 21 on the name of the wife of the Muslim prophet Muhammad!!
And on Bamidbar 24:19 where the Turkish city Constantinople is mentioned.

The Targum Yonatan on Neviim **is** considered to be by Yonatan ben Uzziel.

KT

Josh