15. Next in age and value is the _Targum of Jonathan Ben Uzziel_ on the _Prophets_; that is, according to the Jewish classification (Chap. 13, No. 4), Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the twelve Minor Prophets. In the historical books, this Targum is in the main literal; but in the prophets (in the stricter sense of the term) paraphrastic and allegorical. The Jewish tradition represents that Jonathan wrote the paraphrase of the prophets from the mouth of Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi; a mere fable. Who was the real author cannot be determined with certainty, only that he lived after the so-called Onkelos. 16. There are two other Targums on the Pentateuch, one of them commonly known as the _Targum of the Pseudo-Jonathan_ (because falsely ascribed to the author of the preceding Targum) and the _Jerusalem Targum_. The latter is of a fragmentary character; and its agreement with the corresponding passages of the former is so remarkable that it is generally considered as consisting of extracts taken from it with free variations. But according to Davidson (in Alexander's Kitto): "The Jerusalem Targum formed the basis of that of Jonathan; and its own basis was that of Onkelos. Jonathan used both his predecessors' paraphrases; the author of the Jerusalem Targum that of Onkelos alone." The style of Pseudo-Jonathan is barbarous, abounding in foreign words, with the introduction of many legends, fables, and ideas of a later age. He is assigned to the seventh century. Keil, Introduc. to Old Testament, Sec. 189. 17. The Targums on the Hagiographa are all of late date. There is one on _Psalms_, _Job_, and _Proverbs_, the last tolerably accurate and free from legendary and paraphrastic additions; one on the _five rolls_--Ruth, Esther, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Canticles; which is not a translation, but rather a commentary in the Talmudic style; two on _Esther_, one on _Chronicles_. In the present connection, though not belonging properly to the Targums, may be named the _Samaritan version of the Samaritan Pentateuch_, printed with the originals in the Paris and London Polyglotts. It is a literal translation executed in the spirit of the Targum of Onkelos, and admitting the same class of variations from the letter of the original. IV. THE SYRIAC PESHITO.