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💬 מגילת יונה | Megillat Yonah with its Yevanic (Judeo-Greek) Targum ca. 14th c.

This is a 14th-century translation of the entire book of Jonah into Judeo-Greek or Yevanic, the traditional language of the Romaniote community of Byzantium. To quote the Judeo-Greek expert Julia G. Krivoruchko, it “exhibits a fusion of contemporary vernacular language with archaic elements” and “favors an extremely literal translation style.” This translation was first published in Greek transcription by the Dutch hellenist Dirk Christiaan Hesseling, who misdated it to the 12th-century based on a mixup between the Seleucid and common eras. Included as part of a Romaniote maḥzor (Bodleian Library MS. Oppenheim Add. 8° 19), this translation was almost certainly in use as a targum for the reading of Jonah as the Yom Kippur minḥa haftarah. In the original manuscript the majority of verses are preceded with a few words of the Hebrew, a common practice for written targumim.

Categories:

Yonah, Yom Kippur Readings

Tags:

14th century C.E., 52nd century A.M., Greek speaking Jewry, Greek translation, Judeo-Greek, תרגום targum, Yevanic

Contributor(s):

Unknown (translation), the Mesorah (TaNaKh) and Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut)

💬 מגילת יונה | Megillat Yonah — translated by J.R.R. Tolkien (1966)

This is the Masoretic text of Megillat Yonah set side-by-side with its translation, made by J.R.R. Tolkien for the Jerusalem Bible (1966).

Categories:

Yonah, Yom Kippur Readings

Tags:

35th century A.M., 4th century B.C.E., mortality, mysterious fish, mythopoesis, resurrection, תוכחות tokheḥot

Contributor(s):

J.R.R. Tolkien (translation), the Mesorah (TaNaKh) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

💬 מגילת יונה | Megillat Yonah: Chantable English translation with trōp, by Len Fellman

A Megillah reading of Yonah with English translation, transtropilated.

Categories:

Yonah, Yom Kippur Readings

Tags:

21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Cantillated readings in English, English Translation, Five Megillot, Megillah Readings in English, transtropilation

Contributor(s):

the Mesorah (TaNaKh) and Len Fellman (translation)

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