Targumim
Meaning
of Targum
Source: Webster's dictionaryExamples
Targum Ketuvim The Talmud explicitly states that no official targumim were composed besides these two on Torah and Nevi'im alone, and that there is no official targum to Ketuvim ("The Writings").
Other Targumim on the Torah There are also a variety of western targumim on the Torah, each of which was traditionally called Targum Yerushalmi ("Jerusalem Targum").
Other sources on Targum * citation * citation—contains critical editions of all the targumim along with lexical tools and grammatical analysis.
The Yemenite Jews are the only Jewish community to continue the use of Targum as liturgical text, as well as to preserve a living tradition of pronunciation for the Aramaic of the targumim (according to a Babylonian dialect).
Today, only Jews from the republic of Yemen continue to use the targumim liturgically.