Abstract
The short study presented on following pages focuses on the possibly earliest manuscripts of Targum Onkelos and Targum Jonathan, which were preserved on four different earthenware bowls. These so called ""Aramaic magic bowls"" were created approximately between the 4th and the 7th centuries in central Mesopotamia as home apotropaic objects or (in rare cases) as curse tablets.
Author of the paper describes the praxis of reading the Aramaic translations of the Bible in the ancient synagogues and compares the bowl texts with the current Targumic material.