Targum Pseudo-Jonathan

Sefaria, 'Targum Jonathan on Genesis'

Date600–800PlacePalestineTraditionrabbinicVerseGenesis 1:1

Bereshit / in principio heaven and earth out of nothing?Elohim / Deus … Spiritus

English

At the beginning the LORD created the heavens and the earth.

J. W. Etheridge, 1862 · etheridge

Hebrew / Aramaic

מִן אַוְולָא בְּרָא יְיָ יַת שְׁמַיָא וְיַת אַרְעָא

Sefaria, 'Targum Jonathan on Genesis' · pd

Notes

A third Aramaic word for the same Hebrew one: min avvela, 'from the first'. Etheridge prints the Aramaic in transliteration inside his English ('At the beginning (min avella)'), which is why his sentence carries a gloss no other version has; the parenthesis is his.

In the beginning of time

Threads

→ parallel · Targum Onkelos
min avvela beside be-qadmin: the same refusal to interpret, in a different word. Three targums on one verse give three renderings of bereshit and only Neofiti's carries a doctrine.