The (reputed) paraphrase of Yonathan on the Fizk Megilloth, is perhaps of a still later date, and has most probably been compiled by several indivi duals from ancient materials. It is generally published with the IIebrew text of these Megilloth in the Jewish editions of the Pentateuch, and is contained in all the Rabbinic Bibles. A rhymed version of the whole of this paraphrase by Jacob b. Samuel, also called Koppelmann b. Bonem, was published about 1584. A Latin version of it is given in Walton's Polyglott. Gill has given an English translation of the entire paraphrase on the Song of Songs (Comment on the Song, 1728). Ginsburg translated the first chapter of the para phrase on the Song (Comment on the Song, p. 29, etc.), and the whole of the paraphrase on Eccle siastes (Comment on Ecclesiastes, p. 5o3, etc.) There are Hebrew commentaries on this para phrase by Mordecai Lorca, Cracow 15So, and Chajim Feivel, Berlin 1705.
The paraphrase of Yonathan on the Prophets (a+31-nti tnann) embraces Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the twelve minor Prophets. The importance of this version may be judged of not only from the opinion of the ancient Jews, that it embodies the expositions of IIaggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, but from the fact that it contains numerous ancient readings which are undoubtedly genuine, and which relieve inany an obscure passage in the Prophets from the constrained and unnatural interpretations forced upon it by critics who are determined to adhere to manifest textual corruptions. A most
interesting and instructive list of these readings of Jonathan b. Uzziel, and by no means an exhaustive one, is given in the Hebrew Annual entitled 119nm, vol. i., Lemberg 1852, p. to9, etc. This para phrase is printed in all the Rabbinic Bibles, and is given in the Polyglotts of Antwerp 1572, Paris 1645, London 1657, etc., with a Latin translation. Comp. Bartolocci, Bibliotheca Magna Rabbinica, vol. p. 788, etc.; Wolf, Bibliotheca Hebraa, vol.
p. 1159-1191 ; Zunz, Die Gottesdienstlichen Vortrag-e der Yuden, Berlin 1832, p. 61-S2 ; Ffirst, Bibliotheca yudaica, vol. ii. p. 105-ro7 ; Stein schneider, Catalogus Libr. .ifebr. in Brbliotheca Bed leiana, col. 167, and the works quoted in this article.—C. D. G.