Background of Aramaic translations of the MT

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Shlama,

Here's another interesting quote on the subject of Jews and Christians translating/modifying the text:

"The Peshitta translation of Genesis, and indeed of the Pentateuch as a whole, is particularly rich in links with contemporary Jewish exegetical tradition, and this makes it likely that these books were translated by Jews rather than by Christians.... the Peshitta translation of Proverbs is also likely to have been the work of Jews in northern Mesopotamia; it subsequently came to be taken over by Syriac-speaking Christians and by later Jews (who lightly modified the dialect)"

-- The Bible in the Syriac Tradition, by Sebastian Brock.