Fisher, Deborah Anne; (2023) The text of Targum Qoheleth. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).

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The aim of this thesis is to produce a lightly-corrected diplomatic edition of Targum Qoheleth (the Targum to Ecclesiastes), using MS Urbinati Ebr. 1, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana as the base text for the transcription, and incorporating readings from 52 other witnesses into the critical apparatus. The texts range in date from 1189 to the 17th century; both Western and Yemenite manuscripts have been used. The edition features physical descriptions of the textual witnesses; an explanation of the methodology used in constructing the apparatus, detailing which types of readings have been included or excluded in order to produce an apparatus which is of a manageable size rather than a “graveyard of errors”; a translation of the text; and stemmatological analysis. Criteria have been developed to establish which variant readings and shared errors allow the manuscripts to be grouped together into textual families. Only the consonantal text has been taken into consideration, as the pointing is of poor quality in many of the manuscripts; the presence or absence of matres lectionis may be simply a matter of scribal preference. It is hoped that through the examination of the relationships between the different witnesses, some light may be shed on the nature of the Late Jewish Literary Aramaic dialect, and the extent to which there is a division between the Western and Yemenite recensions for Targum Qoheleth. This edition would also allow for a more detailed study of Targum Qoheleth and its textual history than currently afforded by existing editions.

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