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Which Jonah?

Posted: August 15th, 2012, 9:52 am
by Jonathan Robie
Our Sunday evening Greek reading group finished Philippians, and we're moving on to Jonah. I'm looking for a version that I can print up for the group.

Ellopos has one version that looks pretty good, if I take just the Greek column and leave out the English. Is there a better text to use for this group?

Re: Which Jonah?

Posted: August 15th, 2012, 10:01 am
by Ken M. Penner
For such questions, a handy resource is maintained by Joel Kalvesmaki at http://www.kalvesmaki.com/lxx/texts.htm

Re: Which Jonah?

Posted: August 15th, 2012, 11:13 am
by Jonathan Robie
If I want something freely distributable, I think my choices basically boil down to:

1. Printing out the scans of Swete, nice edition, low quality
2. Printing out Rahlfs or Brenton

Is that about right? If I have to pick 2, I'm guessing good quality punctuation and diacritics may determine whose version I use.

Re: Which Jonah?

Posted: August 15th, 2012, 1:27 pm
by Ken M. Penner
I tend to use Hancock's version of Rahlfs because it is easier to manipulate, since it is already in Word .doc format.

Re: Which Jonah?

Posted: August 15th, 2012, 3:20 pm
by Jonathan Robie
Looks good - thanks!

Re: Which Jonah?

Posted: August 15th, 2012, 9:50 pm
by Jason Hare
Jonathan Robie wrote:Our Sunday evening Greek reading group finished Philippians, and we're moving on to Jonah. I'm looking for a version that I can print up for the group.

Ellopos has one version that looks pretty good, if I take just the Greek column and leave out the English. Is there a better text to use for this group?
Have you seen the German Bible Society's online Bibles? Here's the book of Jonah.

Re: Which Jonah?

Posted: August 15th, 2012, 10:11 pm
by Ken M. Penner
As far as I can tell, the differences between Hancock's version and the Bible Society's version are in the encoding of accented capital letters (whether precomposed-Hancock or decomposed-Bible Society), and in the encoding of the apostrophe (1FBD-Bible Society or 2019-Hancock). Hancock is preferable in both cases.

Re: Which Jonah?

Posted: August 16th, 2012, 1:13 pm
by ed krentz
I use the Rahlfs LXX from Linguists Software; standard basic edition.