Das Targum Jonathan zu Gen. 45:24 and 14:24

Abstract

[Though it was promised otherwise and the Journal is manifestly gaining subscribers, it seems that its finances, with no endowment, are once more squeezed. In our press the setting of non-English type, particularly such as reverses direction, seems to be so expensive that it must be avoided wherever possible. In his own articles, though a number of languages are quoted as needed, the editor has eschewed such type almost entirely. In this article, where most of the Hebrew is wholly unpointed, a transliteration serves the same purpose as does use of the square Aramaic character. Those who are sufficiently interested and learned can easily read back, if they wish, twentytwo characters (sin and shin being in fact the same in writing and only occasionally distinguished). The editor did not wish to let this little difficulty stand in the way of using Dr. Speier's article, sent from far-off Strasbourg. By eliminating unnecessary expense, we can use what is really necessary, when occasion arises. In this way the size of the Journal can be kept up for our subscribers. More subscribers make possible more elaborate publication. A decent endowment for this Journal, which has proved its worth for over fifty years and increased it considerably in the last ten, would not have to be fabulously large to allow us much greater freedom.-EDIToR.]