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Primary Hebrew witnesses and ancient versions show a stable Old Testament text from First Temple artifacts through the Masoretic codices.
Recover the original words of the Old Testament without autographs by weighing the Masoretic Text with early Hebrew and versions that corroborate it.
The “Targums” were loose translations or paraphrases of the Hebrew Old Testament Scriptures into Aramaic. Although fragments of the early Targums of some books were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Jewish Targums as a whole likely found their current form no sooner than about the fifth century C.E.
