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- Title
Following the Frankincense: Reassessing the Sitz im Leben of Targum Song of Songs<sup>*</sup>.
- Authors
Litke, Andrew W.
- Abstract
It is commonly asserted that Targum Song of Songs was composed in Palestine in the seventh or eighth century CE. This article surveys the most significant criteria used to posit that assertion (such as language, Jewish education, and messianism), and it argues that these criteria are either inconclusive or point to a different Sitz im Leben for the Targum. The article then adds one element to the discussion, the use of the late Latin term olibanum, ‘frankincense’, in 4.11. Ultimately, this article argues that the traditional dating and provenance of Targum Song of Songs' composition should be adjusted. A tenth- or eleventh-century time period and a location in either southern Italy or Byzantium better fit the evidence.
- Subjects
MESSIANISM; SACRED music; JUDAISM; FRANKINCENSE; ARAMAIC literature
- Publication
Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, 2018, Vol 27, Issue 4, p289
- ISSN
0951-8207
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0951820718786197