The Roman aristocrat behind the Aramaic translation in every Chumash

The Talmud relates that Onkelos — author of the authoritative Aramaic translation of the Torah printed beside the parsha in nearly every Chumash — was a nephew of the Roman emperor himself, who converted to Judaism and became a student of Rabbi Eliezer and Rabbi Yehoshua.

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