Full title
The Wisdom Discourse of Tobit as Instruction in Torah
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Research notes
SHS/not checked/11/04/2016 |SHS/reader checked/07/07/2016
Reference type
Year
2016
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Biblische Notizen
Issue / Series Volume
167
Abbreviated Series Name
BN
Pages
99-112
Work type
Label
09/05/2016
Abstract
The Book of Tobit strongly endorses almsgiving and endogamy as normative for righteousness in
|exile. The formulation of these practices in the narrative, however, surpasses what is decreed in the Law of
|Moses. This short essay shows how the narrative employs certain literary details in order to convey Tobit’s
|commands as an instruction in the ways of Torah.
Primary Texts: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha