@JackDouglas Are targumin on topic here?

@DoubleAA Only the first of these:

It would be ontopic for the same reason an English translation is ontopic.

@JonEricson Targumin are sometimes more like expositions than translations. And I didn't really think the Rutger's newspaper would be on topic :)

I kind of thought they fit in "ancient Jewish literature considered of import to understanding the Canon(s)" from here meta.hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/q/4/544

But I don't really know what working consensus is in regards that post.

@DoubleAA I think this is on the edge of our subject for questions, but would be potentially useful for constructing answers. I guess I've always thought of them as "Aramaic translations" rather than midrashic interpretations. But we occasionally have questions along the lines of "X says this passage means Y, but I don't see how that can be."

@JonEricson Well, worst comes to worst it gets closed. No harm done.

@JonEricson Some are much more midrashic than others. Targum Onkelos for example sticks to the text very well, unlike for example Targum Jonathon or Targum Sheni to Esther. I don't have much experience with Neofiti (hence my question) so I don't know where in the spectrum it falls.

@JonEricson Phooey! I can't create new tags. I propose to tag it targum as I don't think it really fits under translation which is about "translation choices".

@DoubleAA I've fixed up the tags (to my satisfaction ;-). We have talked about depreciating the translation tag since it's generally implied by one or more language tags.

@DoubleAA Considering that Dan couldn't find it via Google, I'd say this question clearly adds value to the internet. Within a few days, we'll be the answer that Google points to, I'm sure. ;-)

@DoubleAA I was just stopping in to let you know you should really also consider buying the Logos edition which also comes with the Lexicon. You can just double click/mouseover any word to get full morphology and a lexical entry. And it looks a lot cleaner and mousing over the editor's conventions shows a popup explaining them (additions, alternate readings, etc.). See:

@DoubleAA It just looks pretty

@JonEricson yeah I only knew where to look because of this header in my copy:

@JonEricson it should definitely be #1 on Google soon

@DanO'Day Thank you for your suggestion and your help!

@JonEricson famous-question here I come! :)

Lack of paragraphs aside, this looks like a useful first answer, right?