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Targum Job
Four manuscripts of the book of Job were discovered at Qumran. These fragments are from one of two targums, or translations, of the original Hebrew of Job into Aramaic, the predominant language of Judea after the Babylonian Exile. This text is the earliest targum of a biblical book.
The Aramaic deviates from the Hebrew version, which illustrates the difficulty of translating the scroll.
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