May 5, 2023

This is how the comparison produced by the new computerized tool looks like. From top to bottom: the original verse from the Torah - in this example, of course, the first verse in Genesis; And the same verse in the Onclus translation (TO), in the Neophyte manuscript translation 1 (TN) and in the Pseudo-Jonathan translation (TPJ). The two bottom lines are the translation of the verse from two "fragment translations" - translations that include only certain sections of the Torah. A quick look is enough to notice that the five translations are very similar in the second part of the verse ("the heavens and the earth") and, on the other hand, are very diverse in the first part.

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A computerized tool quickly links each word in the Torah with the corresponding words in the various translations of the Torah into Aramaic
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