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'''Onkelos''' (אונקלוס) is the name of a famous convert to [[Judaism]] in [[Tannaim|Tannaic]] times (c.35-120 CE). He is considered to be the author of the famous [[Targum Onkelos]] (c.110 CE).

==Onkelos in the Talmud==
Onkelos is mentioned several times in the [[Talmud]]. According to the traditional Jewish sources, he was a prominent [[Rome|Roman]] nobleman, a nephew of the Roman emperor Titus. His conversion is the subject of a story whereupon he first consulted with the spirits of three deceased enemies of Israel to see how [[Children of Israel|Israel]] fared in the [[Jewish eschatology|next world]] (Gittin 56b). The first was his uncle [[Titus]], who was blamed for the destruction of the [[Second Temple]]; the second was the seer [[Balaam]], hired by [[Balak]] king of Moab to curse Israel; and the last was [[Yeshu]], a name used for those who sought to lead Jews astray to idolatry, in particular an idolatrous former student of Rabbi Joshua ben Perachiah in the [[Hasmonean]] period as well as king [[Manasseh of Judah]]. (In later writings [[Yeshu]] is used for Jesus, but opinions differ over whether it can be understood this way in the [[Talmud]].) Onkelos is said to have seen all of them subject to humiliating punishments for harming Israel. All three urged Onkelos to complete his conversion. The earlier Jerusalem Talmud gives the subject of these stories as [[Aquila of Sinope|Aquila]], another convert to Judaism who translated the Bible into Greek. Stories about the two men had become confounded due to the similarity of names.

After his conversion, the Talmud records a story of how the [[Roman emperor]] tried to have Onkelos arrested ([[Avodah Zarah]] 11a). Onkelos cited verses from the [[Tanakh]] to the first [[Roman legion]], who then converted. The second legion was also converted, after he juxtaposed God's personal guidance of Israel in the [[Book of Numbers]] to the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] social hierarchy. A similar tactic was used for the third legion, where Onkelos compared his [[mezuzah]] to a symbol of God guarding the home of every Jew, in contrast to a Roman king who has his servants guard him. The third legion also converted and no more were sent.

==The Targum of Onkelos==
According to tradition, Onkelos authored his [[Targum Onkelos|Targum]] as an exposition of the "official" interpretation of the ''pshat'' (or basic meaning) of the Torah, as received by [[Rabbi Eliezer]]. This helped canonise the status of both Onkelos and his Targum in the Jewish tradition.

==External links==
*[http://faur.derushah.com/articlesbyhakhamjosefaur.html#targumim The Targumim and Halakha] by Jose Faur, analyzing the status of the Targumim in Jewish law

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