[The Book of Tobit] in Hebrew. Basel: Heinrich Petri, 1563. Courtesy Newberry.org
Sefer Tuviah, the Book of Tobit: An Ancient Jewish Novel for Shavuot
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In the Catholic community, on the other hand, Tobit 8:4b-9 (the prayer of the newlyweds) is still part of the wedding liturgy.
Manuscript Codex Or. Gaster 28; Stuart Weeks, “A Deuteronomic Heritage in Tobit?” in Changes in Scripture: Rewriting and Interpreting Authoritative Traditions in the Second Temple Period (eds. Hanne von Weissenberg, Juha Pakkala and Marko Martila; BZAW 119; Berlin: de Gruyter, 2011), 394 fn. 11.
In Aramaic, the names are the same: טוביה. In that sense, they are Tobit Sr. and Tobit Jr. The Greek translation rendered the two differently, ostensibly to make following the story easier.
http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~q67/Info/HymnsIntro.pdf, William D. Furley and Jan M Bremer, Greek Hymns, Volume 1: A Selection of Greek Religious Poetry from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001) 60-65.
Susan R. Holman, The Hunger are Dying: Beggars and Bishops in Roman Cappadocia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001) 11. Arthur Robinson Hands, Charities and Social Aid in Greece and Rome (Ithaca, N.Y.:Cornell University Press, 1968) 73-74.; Gildas H. Hamel, Poverty and Charity in Roman Palestine, First Three Centuries C.E. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990); http://humweb.ucsc.edu/gweltaz/writings/RP.pdf.
Jean Baumgarten, Introduction to Old Yiddish Literature, ed. and trans Jerold C. Frakes (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005), 109.
Weeks, “Deuteronomic Hegemony,” 394 fn. 11.
Weeks, “Deuteronomic Hegemony,” 394 fn. 11.
See Leviticus 19, Deuteronomy 15, and Deuteronomy 23 for statements regarding the protection of the widow, orphan, and resident alien.
