The Glory of Israel.pdf

The present monograph derives from my attempt over several years to understand the Isaian meturgeman (if that term may be used generically of the various interpreters who contributed to the Targum). The attempt was born of my conviction, argued elsewhere, that this Targum has particular affinities with the kingdom sayings of Jesus. Since reaching that conclusion, I have tried better to understand what the meturgeman stood for, and what situation he addressed, because in answering these questions we come to an appreciation of how and when the Targum as we know it took shape. At the same time, I have been comparing New Testament citations of Isaiah with the Targum in order to develop a clear perception of the extent to which exegeses similar to those in the Targum can be found in the New Testament.