The Seventy Angels Who Stand Before the Throne

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisThe Seventy Tongues and the Killing Between NeighborsTargum Pseudo-Jonathan on (Genesis 11:8) does not describe a gentle scattering. It describes a massacre. The Word of the Lord, the Memra, that favorite Targumic

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisThe Angel Who Drew a Sword Against Laban in the NightBetween Laban's hot pursuit and his morning confrontation, something happened in a dream that the plain Hebrew text only hints at. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan makes

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisOne People, One Language, Unlimited AppetiteTargum Pseudo-Jonathan on (Genesis 11:6) preserves a sentence that has given interpreters trouble for centuries. God looks down at the builders of Babel and say

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisWhy the City Was Named Bavel — Confusion ItselfThe Hebrew Bible plays on words: the city is called Bavel because there the Holy One confused, balal, the tongues of the earth. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on (Genes

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisAbimelech Confronts Abraham Over a Kingdom's SinPicture the king of Gerar standing before the stranger who had walked into his court with a wife he called a sister. Abimelech is not shouting. He is stunned. I

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on ExodusDo Not Join Hands With the Wicked as a False WitnessA man walks up to you in the market with a story. His neighbor, he says, has wronged him. He needs someone to stand with him at the gate, to nod when he speaks,

The Seventy Angels Who Stand Before the Throne

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