Restoring the Greek Tobit

Weeks, Stuart

doi:10.1163/15700631-12340377

Restoring the Greek Tobit

Weeks, Stuart

Authors

Professor Stuart Weeks s.d.weeks@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Abstract

The modern consensus that the “Long” text of Tobit is earlier than the “Short” has brought about a paralysis in attempts to restore the Greek, with the very unsatisfactory text in Sinaiticus coming to serve as our de facto best effort. It is important to appreciate that the Long witnesses do not constitute a specific and coherent recension, capable of reconstruction in its own right, but are potentially miscellaneous texts, that happened individually to elude the two major revisions of the tradition. Original readings are preserved in both the revised and unrevised witnesses, and if we are to progress then we need to employ and evaluate all those witnesses. The paper ends with an attempt to reconstruct the original form of 4:7-19, which is lacking in Sinaiticus, as an illustration of the scope for such progress.

Citation

Weeks, S. (2013). Restoring the Greek Tobit. Journal for the Study of Judaism: In the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period, 44(1), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12340377

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Jan 1, 2013
Deposit Date	Mar 7, 2013
Publicly Available Date	Mar 15, 2013
Journal	Journal for the Study of Judaism
Print ISSN	0047-2212
Electronic ISSN	1570-0631
Publisher	Brill Academic Publishers
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	44
Issue	1
Pages	1-15
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12340377
Keywords	Tobit, Text criticism.
Publisher URL	http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15700631-12340377