110 CE: ONKELOS

Authors Targum Onkelos (on the Torah)

–Aramaic exposition of the pshat (basic meaning) of the Five Books of Moses.

Onkelos (35–120 CE), a nephew of Titus, is one of Judaism’s most illustrious converts, having entered his works into the core of the Masorah (the Jewish core chain of theological tradition, “Written Law” and “Oral Law”).