Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the 1979 reprint
- Note on transliteration
- Note on bibliographical references
- List of abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION: THE BACKGROUND OF THE TARGUMS
- PS. JONATHAN ON SELECTED CHAPTERS OF GENESIS
- GENESIS I
- GENESIS II
- GENESIS III
- GENESIS IV
- GENESIS V
- GENESIS VI
- GENESIS VII
- GENESIS VIII
- GENESIS IX
- GENESIS X. 8–14
- GENESIS XI. 1–9, 27–8
- GENESIS XIII. 10–13
- GENESIS XIV. 13–15, 18–20
- GENESIS XV. 1–6
- GENESIS XVI. 1–6
- GENESIS XVIII. 1–25
- GENESIS XIX. 24
- GENESIS XX. 13
- GENESIS XXI. 1–2
- GENESIS XXI. 33
- GENESIS XXII
- GENESIS XXVI. 5
- GENESIS XXXVII
- GENESIS XXXIX
- GENESIS XL
- GENESIS XLI
- GENESIS XLII
- GENESIS XLIII
- GENESIS XLIV
- GENESIS XLV
- GENESIS XLVI
- GENESIS XLVII
- GENESIS XLVIII
- GENESIS XLIX
- GENESIS L
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Indexes
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the 1979 reprint
- Note on transliteration
- Note on bibliographical references
- List of abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION: THE BACKGROUND OF THE TARGUMS
- PS. JONATHAN ON SELECTED CHAPTERS OF GENESIS
- GENESIS I
- GENESIS II
- GENESIS III
- GENESIS IV
- GENESIS V
- GENESIS VI
- GENESIS VII
- GENESIS VIII
- GENESIS IX
- GENESIS X. 8–14
- GENESIS XI. 1–9, 27–8
- GENESIS XIII. 10–13
- GENESIS XIV. 13–15, 18–20
- GENESIS XV. 1–6
- GENESIS XVI. 1–6
- GENESIS XVIII. 1–25
- GENESIS XIX. 24
- GENESIS XX. 13
- GENESIS XXI. 1–2
- GENESIS XXI. 33
- GENESIS XXII
- GENESIS XXVI. 5
- GENESIS XXXVII
- GENESIS XXXIX
- GENESIS XL
- GENESIS XLI
- GENESIS XLII
- GENESIS XLIII
- GENESIS XLIV
- GENESIS XLV
- GENESIS XLVI
- GENESIS XLVII
- GENESIS XLVIII
- GENESIS XLIX
- GENESIS L
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Indexes
Summary
Now the serpent was wiser for evil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, ‘Is it in truth that the Lord God hath said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’
And the woman said unto the serpent, ‘Of the other fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat:
but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, the Lord God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.’
And the serpent acting as an informer to its creator said unto the woman: ‘You will not die at all for every craftsman hates his fellow-craftsman.
It is revealed before the Lord that in the day on which you eat of it, your eyes shall be enlightened, and ye shall be as the mighty angels who are wise (enough) to distinguish between good and evil.’
And the woman saw Sammael, the angel of death, and she was afraid, and she knew that the tree was good for food, and that it was a remedy for the enlightenment of the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.
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- The Targums and Rabbinic LiteratureAn Introduction to Jewish Interpretations of Scripture, pp. 121 - 131Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1969