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Is It A Problem That The Torah Cites External Documents?

In Parshas Chukas, God behaves almost like a blogger. Rather than authoring his own material, our Lord and Creator twice references the published work of other people.

The first occurrence is a cite from the the Book of the Wars of the Lord a book that was lost, and excluded from the canon.

The second occurrence … [...]

A Comment on Biblical Literalism

Comment on DovBear

No. Note your error.
Targum is not in error, or mistranslating. Targum translates Zonah as Pundakita. Rashi understands that to be a literal translation. So he says that Targum has Zonah meaning “inkeeper”.
Radak says that the word Pundakita is a euphemism.
Nobody mistranslated. The only “error” if you want to call it that is that [...]