Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Steve Oren" <soren AT enteract.com>]

THis is a question which may belong on b-greek to which (for reasons that=
 will appear] I don't belong.

I am part of a group studying Sefer Yonah (the Book of Jonah).  In the =
course of that study, we became aware that the end of Tobit (in the LXX =
but not in the MT) refers to Jonah.  The passage, however (Tobit 14:4 ff)=
 seems to show that while the author of Tobit was aware of a Jonah story =
about Nineveh, he did not have our Jonah story in which Nineveh is eventu=
ally spared.  Goodspeed, the editor of the translation I used (since I =
don't know Greek) says that "The THree great manuscripts of the Greek Bib=
le differ in their texts of TObit. The present tradition follows traditio=
n in presenting the text of the Vaticanus and Alexandrinus.  The Sinaitic=
us may represent an older text".

So, the question is: Is there an English version of this Sinaiticus text =
and where does one obtain it?  Needless to say, anyone aware of studies =
of the relationship of Jonah to Tobit is also encouraged to come forth =
with this information.  My e-mail address is: soren AT enteract.com.

Thank you in advance


Stephen Oren
Chicago, IL