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Bibliography Please provide footnote text Bibliography Primary Texts Aberbach, Moses and Bernard Grossfeld. Targum Onkelos to Genesis: A Critical Analysis Together with an English Translation of the Text (Based on A. Sperber’s Edition). New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1982. Beattie, Derek Robert George and J. Stanley McIvor. The Targum of Ruth and the Targum of Chronicles. The Aramaic Bible 19. Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1994. Berman, Samuel A. Midrash Tanhuma-Yelammedenu. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 1996. Braude, William G. Pesikta Rabbati. 2 vols. Yale Judaica Series vol. 18. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968. Braude, William G. and Israel J. Kapstein. Pesikta de-Rab Kahana. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 2002. Buber, S. Midrash Tanhuma. 2 vols. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1989. Clarke, Ernest G. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan of the Pentateuch: Text and Concordance. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1984. Diez Macho, Alejandro. Neophyti 1: Targum Palestinense MS de la Biblioteca Vaticana. Tomo II: Exodo. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1970. Diez Macho, Alejandro. Neophyti 1: Targums Palestinense MS de la Biblioteca Vaticana. Tomo IV: Numeros. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1974. Drazin, Israel. Targum Onkelos to Exodus: An English Translation of the Text with Analysis and Commentary (Based on the A. Sperber and A. Berliner Edition). Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 1990. Drazin, Israel. Targum Onkelos to Numbers: An English Translation of the Text with Analysis and Commentary (Based on the A. Sperber and A. Berliner Edition). Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 1998. Dunsky, Samson. Midrash Rabbah: Shir ha-Shirim. Jerusalem: Devir, 1980. Epstein, Isadore, ed. Hebrew-English edition of the Babylonian Talmud. London: Soncino Press, 1960. Epstein, Jacob N. and Ezra Z. Melamed. Mekilta de Rabbi Shimon b. Yohai. Jerusalem: Sumptibus Mekize Nirdanim, 1955. Etheridge, John W., M. A. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch with the Fragments of the Jerusalem Targum from the Chaldee: Genesis and Exodus. New York: Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 1968. Finkelstein, Louis. Sifre on Deuteronomy. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary, 1969. Freedman, Harry and Maurice Simon, eds. Midrash Rabbah. 10 vols. London: Soncino Press, 1939. 160 Bibliography Friedlander, Gerald. Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer: (The Chapters of Rabbi Eliezer the Great) According to the Text of the Manuscript Belonging to Abraham Epstein of Vienna. New York: Hermon Press, 1965. Goldin, Judah. The Fathers According to Rabbi Nathan. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. Goldschmidt, Lazarus. Sepher hajaschar. Das Heldenbuch, Sagen, Berichte und Erzahlungen aus der israelitischen Urzeit. Berlin: Harz, 1923. Grossfeld, Bernard. The Targum Onqelos to Genesis. The Aramaic Bible 6. 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