Word: targum
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...kegs at Rutgers Homecoming tailgate parties did not produce less drinking last weekend, but merely increased litter, according to The Daily Targum, the campus newpaper...
...Jordan government has so far kept its contents under lock and key, but scholars have been permitted a preliminary peek. On the basis of this examination, they tentatively identified the Cave II scrolls as the Biblical 'Psalms and Leviticus, an apocalyptic description of the New Jerusalem, and a targum (i.e., a translation of a Hebrew text into Aramaic, the colloquial language of Christ's time) of the Book of Job. In all probability this is the targum that disappeared when it was suppressed (for still-obscure theological reasons) by Rabbi Gamaliel I, teacher of Saul the Pharisee...
...Rutgers Targum editor William Mackenzie and cheerleader Douglas Campbell took possession of the cannon Thursday afternoon at a Kirkland House rendezvous. They came in answer to a midweek telegram from the thief reading: HAD NOT REALIZED THE CANNON MEANT SO MUCH TO RUTGERS. THE DEED WAS DONE OUT OF A SPIRIT OF PRANKISHESS...
...little Red Cannon, symbol of Middle Three football supremacy, was whisked up into the Crimson colonnades between the halves of the Rutgers game. Distraught Targum editors branded the theft "poor sportsmanship." The cannon is "a very important thing" to the Middle Three, they pointed...
...Little Red Cannon belongs to the Rutgers football team that won it the hard way," says the Targum. Mulling over the scores of the only two games the boys from the Raritan have played in the Stadium, they point out that Harvard can have no claim to the cannon as a victory trophy. The theft of the tradition-cloaked cannon "reflects disrespect on all students of Harvard University," concludes the Targum...