RARE critical edition of Targum Onkelos, the official Babylonian targum (Aramaic translation) to the Torah (der Urtext in lateinischer Transkription), with German introduction, notes and translation. The text of the Targum appears in original Aramaic in Latin letters (in transcription) opposite its German translation in two parallel columns. Bound at the end of the volume is an appendix (Erstes Heft) with information partly repeating the introduction (pages I-XXI). 330x240mm. XXI+58 pages [+16]. Quarter-cloth marbled board Hardcover. Cover yellowing, dirty and slightly curved. Cover corners and bottom edges bumped. Cover edges peeling. Spine rubbed. Sticker residues on spine. Stain on spine front hinge. Spine edges bumped and worn. Inner cover and some pages slightly age-stained. Binding slightly loose and visible between pages 24-25. Sticker residues on last page edge near binding. Pages yellowing. [APPENDIX-Erstes Heft-]: First page slightly stained, edges slightly tattered, upper corner missing. Second page upper edge slightly torn, edges worn. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare edition of the most widely spread Aramaic Targum of the Pentateuch has sustained some wear, but is still in good reading condition.