Interpreting the Sermon on the Mount in the Light of Jewish Tradition as evidenced in the Palestinian Targums of the Pentateuch. Selected Themes

Elucidation of several key concepts in Matthew's Sermon on the Mount: "father", "be ye perfect", "measure for measure" ,"word(s)', "vacuous", and the "fruit" metaphor, having both the presuppositions and the modest objectives proper to a study in the area of targum and New Testament at the present stage of scholarship in that area.