Targum Americana

Tehillim / Psalms

By: Irwin Tyler

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's summary

Psalms express an array of human emotions — joy, fear, gratitude, rage, hope, and more.
Yet, much of this is lost in translation.

• Few English speakers understand or can even read the original Hebrew.
• Nuances and poetry in the Hebrew words of Psalms are difficult to translate.
• Psalms often refer to people, places, events, and practices unknown to us today.
• The translator's word choice sometimes infers meanings not intended in the Hebrew.

Each Psalm is a very personal work, full of emotion that tugs at the heart every bit as much
as it calls to the intellect. Much of Psalms is poetry, and poetry rarely crosses the language
barrier well. For these reasons alone, a literal translation of Psalms can never be accurate.

Explanatory footnotes is the typical solution to these problems. But...

• Reading footnotes interrupts the main reading flow.
• The typical footnote is written in a smaller more-difficult-to-read typeface.

This Targum - Psalms follows in the successful solution found in Targum Onkelos and
the first book in the Targum Americana series: The Five Books of Moses.

• Targum Americana is a starting point for a better understanding of the Hebrew texts.
• Targum Americana calls on the reliability of the ancient Biblical commentators.
• Targum Americana focuses on clarity of meaning within emotional expression.

Psalms deserves to be properly understood. We can never exhaust the many messages
and lessons that the Book of Psalms presents. That is God’s gift to us.

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