Meturgeman [Aramaic dictionary].

LEVITA, ELIJAH BACHUR.

P. Fagius

Isny

1541

FIRST EDITION. With a foreword in Latin by Fagius and with his woodcut device on last leaf. A wide-margined copy. With the Author’s introduction in Hebrew and Latin (usually lacking).

Vinograd, Isny 6.

A dictionary of the Aramaic words found in the Targumim: Jonathan, Onkelos and Jerusalem. In his introduction, Levita delves into the authorship of Targum Jerusalem to Pentateuch and Writings, and other matters pertaining to the composition and dating of the various Aramaic translations of the Bible. Levita boasts that his is the first Aramaic dictionary since R. Nathan of Rome’s Aruch. He also remarks that the Aruch was primarily concerned with the Aramaic of the Talmud and only peripherally with that of the Targumi.