By Targum Neophyti is meant the main targum text elsewhere called more precisely “Targum Neophyti (or Neofiti) 1.” This manuscript also contains numerous marginal and interlinear glosses. The manuscript itself is dated to the sixteenth century, but its original editor argued that the text it contains is one that goes back to pre-Christian times; however, this claim was soon disputed. The date and affiliations of Targum Neophyti have subsequently been much discussed; but many scholars fix its date roughly at the end of the first century c.e. As is the case with other targums, this one obviously contains some material older than that.