The First Night in the Cave — Wine and Unknowing

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisThe Woman's Sorrow in Conception and ChildbirthEve's sentence in the Torah is brief. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on (Genesis 3:16) weighs it. "Multiplying, I will multiply thy affliction by the blood of thy virgi

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisLot Offers His Daughters — The Verse No One Wants to ReadSome verses in Torah are hard to carry, and (Genesis 19:8) is one of them. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan translates it without softening. "Behold, now, I have two daug

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisWhy Lot's Wife Was Turned to Salt — The Sin of Salt(Genesis 19:26) is famously brief. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan is not. "And his wife looked after the angel, to know what would be in the end of her father's house,

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisThe Elder Sister Plots a Second Night in the Cave(Genesis 19:34) is a verse most readers speed past. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan slows down and lets us hear the elder daughter plan. "And it was the day following, a

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on GenesisThe Second Night — The Younger Daughter and Lot(Genesis 19:35) completes the pattern begun two nights earlier. "And they made their father drink wine that night also, and he was drunk, and the younger arose,

Hebraic Literature (1901)The Mother of Seven Sons Who Out-Sacrificed AbrahamTractate Gittin (folio 57, column 2) preserves one of the most devastating martyrdom stories in all of rabbinic literature, a Jewish mother and her seven sons d

The First Night in the Cave — Wine and Unknowing

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