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Document Details : Title: Tobit 12,8 and 2 Clement 16.4 Author(s): TUCKETT, Christopher M. Journal: Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses Volume: 88 Issue: 1 Date: 2012 Pages: 129-144 DOI: 10.2143/ETL.88.1.2164172 Abstract : The text of the book of Tobit raises many well-known issues. There is widespread agreement that the Greek textual witnesses divide into two main groups, with a third group also identifiable. This third group is often regarded as very late, and giving only stylistic improvements. A study of the text of Tobit 12,8 is of interest because of an interesting variant in the third group of texts, where almsgiving is rated above prayer and fasting, a reading also implicitly supported by the Old Latin. The saying in this form was thus probably very old. This is also supported by the evidence of 2 Clement 16,4 which also seems to reflect this reading of the text of Tobit 12,8. The article offers detailed analysis of the textual evidence of the texts of Tobit and 2 Clement here, and suggests that perhaps the third group of Tobit texts might reflect at times earlier traditions and also involve more than simply stylistic improvements of the text. |
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