Studies in the book of Tobit : a multidisciplinary approach / edited by Mark Bredin.

The essays collected here approach the book of Tobit from a range of disciplines: literary, feminist, anthropological, imagination, theological, textual and historical. This multi-disciplinary approach will generate new ideas and approaches to the book of Tobit. The essays vary not only in methodolo...

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Other Authors: Bredin, Mark
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : T & T Clark, ©2006.
Series:Library of Second Temple studies ; 55.
T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Mark Bredin
  • Tobit in Spain : some preliminary comments on the relations between the Old Latin witnesses / Simon Gathercole
  • Some neglected texts of Tobit : the third Greek version / Stuart Weeks
  • Significance of Jonah in Vaticanus (B) Tobit 14.4 and 8 / Mark Bredin
  • 'Sarah is the hero' : Kierkegaard's reading of Tobit in Fear and trembling / Hugh Pyper
  • Tobit in the art of the Florentine Renaissance / Trevor Hart
  • Tobit and the Jewish literary tradition / Shalom Goldman
  • 'Bread on the grave of the righteous' (Tob. 4.17) / Nathan MacDonald
  • Family life and ethnicity in early Israel and in Tobit / ekka Pitkänen
  • Archangel Raphael in the book of Tobit / Margaret Barker
  • Family, fertility, and foul smell : Tobit and Judith / Hans J. Lundager Jensen
  • Tobit as a parable for the exiles of northern Israel / Richard Bauckham
  • Food and drink in Tobit and other 'diaspora novellas' / Nathan MacDonald.