Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Isaiah 56:6-7 and 66:18-23 in the Targum Isaiah

 The following comes from Bruce D. Chilton, The Isaiah Targum: Introduction, Translation, Apparatus and Notes (The Aramaic Bible 11; Wilmington, Del.: Michael Glazier, Inc., 1987)

 

Isa 56:6-7:

 

56.6 And the sons of the Gentiles who have been added to the people of the LORD, to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be his servants, every one who will keep the sabbath from profaning it, and hold fast my covenants- 56.7 these I will bring to the holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer; their burnt offerings and their holy sacrifices will even go up for [my] pleasure on my altar; for my sanctuary will be a house of prayer for all the peoples. (p. 109)

 

Isa 66:18-23:

 

66.18 For before me their works and their conceptions are disclosed, and it is about to gather all the peoples and the nations and the tongues; and they shall come and shall see my glory, 66.19 and I will set a sign among them. And from them 1 will send survivors among the Gentiles, to the province of the sea, the Puleans, and the Ludeans, who draw and shoot with the bow, to the province of Tubal and Javan, the islands, those afar off, who have not heard the fame of my might or seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles. 66.20 And they shall bring all your brethren from all the Gentiles as an offering before the LORD, with horses and with chariots, and with ewes, and with mules, and with songs, upon my holy mountain, to Jerusalem, says the LORD, just as the sons of Israel will bring an offering in a clean vessel to the sanctuary of the LORD. 66.21 And some of them I will bring near to become priests and Levites, says the LORD. 66.22 For as the new heavens and the new earth which I am making stand before me, says the LORD, shall your seed and your name be established. 66.23 From new moon to new moon, and from sabbath to sabbath, all the sons of flesh shall come to worship before me, says the LORD. 66.24 And they shall go forth and look on the bodies of the sinful men who have rebelled against my Memra; for their breaths will not die and their fire shall not be quenched, and the wicked shall be judged in Gehenna until the righteous will say concerning them, We have seen enough." (pp. 127-28)