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	Book of Tobit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Book of Tobit (or Book of Tobias in older Catholic Bibles) is a book of scripture that is part of the Catholic and Orthodox biblical canon, pronounced canonical by the Council of Carthage of 397 and confirmed for Roman Catholics by the Council of Trent (1546).
		Doctrinally, the book is cited for its teaching on the intercession of angels, filial piety, and reverence for the dead.
		It is generally believed that the book was written in the second century BC, on the basis of the scrupulous attention to ritual details and the stress laid upon giving alms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Book_of_Tobit (1165 words)

	JewishEncyclopedia.com - TOBIT, BOOK OF: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The story of the book is as follows: Tobit, a pious man of the tribe of Naphtali, who remained faithful to Jerusalem when his tribe fell away to Jeroboam's cult of the bull, was carried captive to Nineveh in the time of Enemessar (Shalmaneser), King of Assyria.
		At the river Tigris, Tobit caught a fish and was instructed by his companion to preserve its heart, liver, and gall.
		The book is to be compared with Proverbs, Ecclesiasticus (Sirach), Daniel, and Ecclesiastes.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=241&letter=T&search=tobit (1101 words)

	TOBIT, BOOK OF in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE (Bible History Online)
		The book tells of two Jewish families, living, one at Nineveh, the other at Ecbatana, both of which had fallen into great trouble, but at length recovered their fortunes and became united by the marriage of the son of one to the daughter of the other.
		Noldeke and Lohr hold that the book was composed in Egypt, referring to the facts that the demon Asmodeus on being overcome flees to Egypt (8:3) and that there were Jews in Egypt who remained loyal to their ancestral faith and were nevertheless promoted to high places in the state.
		Tobit exists in an unusually large number of manuscripts and versions showing that the book was widely read and regarded as important.
	www.bible-history.com /isbe/T/TOBIT,+BOOK+OF (4355 words)

	Book of Tobit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The main Narrative is dedicated to Tobit's son, Tobiah or Tobijah (Greek: Tobias), of the Tribe of Naphtali, who is sent by his blind father to collect a sum of money that the latter had deposited some time previously in the far off land of Media.
		Tobit sings a hymn of praise, and tells his son to leave Nineveh before God destroys it according to the prophecy of Nahum.
		The Book was originally written in Aramaic, but the original was lost, so that the surviving Greek translation is considered the standard text of the work.
	book-of-tobit.iqnaut.net (889 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Tobit
		It is the account of Tobit, a devout Jew in exile, and of his son Tobias.
		He is prominent in the book of Tobit, as the companion of Tobias, as the healer of Tobit, and as the rescuer of Sara from Asmodeus.
		The Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther is probably Xerxes I. That in the Book of Tobit may be Cyaxares I, destroyer of Nineveh.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Tobit (485 words)

	The Story of Tobit
		Tobit continued following Jewish practices and enjoyed some commercial success, until all his property was confiscated for burying Jews whose bodies had been left exposed to the elements after execution.
		Tobit, expecting to die soon, sent his son Tobias to the town of Ragae to reclaim some money he had on deposit.
		Tobit and Hannah were worried by Tobias' delay, fearing the worst.
	www.fables.org /crown_thistle/tobit.html (761 words)

	Tobit
		The canonicity of the entire Old Testament, and thus, Tobit, was officially settled for the Roman Catholic Church at the Councils of Florence and Trent.
		In the Anglican Communion, Tobit is considered a part of the Old Testament Apocrypha, which the Church reads for example of life and instruction of manners, as Jerome advised, yet does not use these books to establish doctrine (see Article VI of the Articles of Religion).
		Although the author of Tobit wove his various folktales together quite skillfully, their seams are occasionally detectable in certain loose or incompatible threads.
	ourworld.cs.com /tomofield/Apocrypha/Summaries/tobit.html (1838 words)

	Book of Tobit
		Tobit: 1a - 1b - 2a - 2b - 3a - 3b - 4a - 4b - 5a - 5b - 6a - 6b - 7a - 7b - 8a - 8b - 9a - 9b - 10a - 10b - 11a - 11b - 12a - 12b
		Tobit and Sarah are both facing terrible troubles: Tobit has become blind and has lost all his income because of his good deeds on behalf of the Jews in Nineveh, while Sarah is persecuted by a demon who has killed her bridegroom on the night of their marriage, not just once, but seven times!
		Tobit's son Tobias, accompanied by the angel in disguise, journeys from Nineveh to Rages, frees Sarah from the demon and brings her home with him to Nineveh, where he is able to restore his father's sight and return the family's fortune.
	bible.bestlatin.net /tobit (705 words)

	Book of Tobit
		Tobit means God is my good”, and it is the Book on the providence of God, who constantly cares of his faithful, purifies them, and rewards them with greatness.
		Tobit was in Niniveh what Daniel was in Babylon: Daniel caring for the deported two tribes of the South, and Tobit for the deported 10 tribes of the North...
		God is the one who blinded Tobit with the fresh droppings of the sparrows, and the one healed him with the bile of the fish...
	biblia.com /bible/tobit.htm (2663 words)

	Touchstone Archives: The Wide World of Tobit
		Tobit’s explicit reference to Jonah is of considerable interest in the light of certain affinities between the two books.
		Moreover, the book’s description of long-suffering Sarah, whose seven husbands all died on their wedding night, carries on another major theme of Holy Scripture: the barren woman, of which the elder Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Hannah, and Elizabeth are better known examples.
		It is my persuasion that the message of Tobit should begin with a proper analysis of its moral message exactly as it appears at the literary level, without recourse to hidden symbolisms that its author himself could scarcely have suspected and that float, in fact, without sufficient grounding in ancient patristic and liturgical texts.
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	Tobit, Book of - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		The importance of interring the dead is insisted upon in both books (Tobit 1:17; 2:3,7; 4:3; compare Sirach 7:33; 30:18; 38:16).
		We have no means of ascertaining who wrote this book, for the ascription of the authorship to Tobit (1:1) is but a literary device.
		One may say it was allowed in the particular case in question on account of the special circumstances, the fewness of Jews in the parts where the families of Tobit and Raguel lived; compare Numbers 36:4 for another special case.
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T8826 (4399 words)

	Cross+Flame :: The Book of Tobit - Bible Study
		Tobit, a righteous man stuck out with the sinners in Nineveh, is afflicted with blindness and prays to God to allow him to die.
		Tobit's wife is a real nag, Sarah's father is caring and protective, and Raphael's a bit of a joker (at least, the way I read him).
		Book of Tobit is the same as Aeshara Daewa of the Ancient Persians.
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	Tobit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Book of Tobit, a book of scripture that is part of the Catholic and Orthodox biblical canon
		Tobit model, an econometric model for censored endogenous variables proposed by James Tobin
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tobit (99 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Raphael the Archangel
		The story of the adventurous journey during which the protective influence of the angel is shown in many ways including the binding "in the desert of upper Egypt" of the demon who had previously slain seven husbands of Sara, daughter of Raguel, is picturesquely related in Tobit 5-11, to which the reader is referred.
		This conjecture is base both on the significance of the name and on the healing role attributed to Raphael in the Book of Tobias.
		The lessons of the first Nocturn and the Antiphons of the entire Office are taken from the Book of Tobias, and the lessons of the second and third Nocturns from the works of St. Augustine, viz.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12640b.htm (384 words)

	Miss Garnet's Angel by British author Salley Vickers - romantic literature set in Venice.
		Although it is set in the aftermath of the first Jewish holocaust, when the ten lost tribes of Israel (a separate country from the longer-surviving southern kingdom of Judah) were deported to Assyria in 722 BCE, it was probably not written down in its present form until the last quarter of the second century BCE.
		Tobit's preoccupation with burial of the dead is made more intelligible if seen to be set against the Magian practice of exposing the corpse to wild dogs and carrion eating birds of prey.
		Sraosha seems to be associated with a dog (as are other psychopomps or soul guides in ancient literature) and this not only reinforces the parallel with Raphael in the Book of Tobit but also provides another explanation for the presence of the dog in the story.
	www.salleyvickers.com /pages/missgarnetsangel/zoroastrian_background.htm (551 words)

	TOBIT, THE BOOK OF - Online Information article about TOBIT, THE BOOK OF
		BOOK OF, one of the books of the Old Testament Apocrypha.
		For Tobit differs from all other books of the Bible in containing the only polite reference to the dog.
		WISDOM, BOOK OF, or WISDOM OF SOLOMON (Sept. Io4ia IaXwµwvos; Lat.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /THE_TOO/TOBIT_THE_BOOK_OF.html (1948 words)

	USCCB - NAB - Tobit 1
		This book tells the story of Tobit, son of Tobiel, son of Hananiel, son of Aduel, son of Gabael of the family of Asiel, of the tribe of Naphtali,
		[1] Tobit: in the fragments of the book found at Qumran, is given as Tobi, an abbreviated form of Tobiyah (Tobit 1:9; Ezra 2:60) or of Tobiyabu (2 Chron 17:8), a name which means "Yahweh is good." Tobiel, "God is good"; Hananiel, "God is merciful." The book abounds in theophoric names.
		Inconsistencies such as this point to the fact that the Book of Tobit is a religious novel (see Introduction; also notes on Tobit 5:6; 14:15).
	www.usccb.org /nab/bible/tobit/tobit1.htm (1203 words)

	Tobit
		Thus there are good reasons for dating the book in the latter half of the third century or about the year 200 BCE (for a survey of the discussion, see Zimmermann 1958: 21-27; Moore 1996: 40-42)." (Tobit and Judith, p.
		Tobit's situation is paradigmatic for the exiled nation.
		When Tobit is healed and Raphael reveals himself as the angel of God sent to heal him, a major reason was to repay Tobit's willingness to bury the dead (see 12:13).
	www.earlyjewishwritings.com /tobit.html (1019 words)

	Book of Tobit or Tobias
		Tobit was in Nineveh what Daniel was in Babylon: Daniel caring for the deported two tribes of the South, and Tobit for the deported 10 tribes of the North...
		5- A book on Angelology, with the angel Raphael disguised as the constant companion Azariah.
		12- Tobit foretells the destruction of Niniveh and the rebuilding of Jerusalem...
	biblia.com /jesusbible/tobit.htm (722 words)

	The Book of Tobit
		Tobit is blind, because birds pooped in his eyes.
		Tobit's blindness is cured by the gall bladder; and between the money from his friend, and Sarah's dowry, Tobit's fortunes are restored.
		Once upon a time, during the time when the Jews had been exiled from their homeland, there was a Jew named Tobit who lived in the city of Nineveh.
	alumnus.caltech.edu /~teneyck/liturgy/tobit.html (1471 words)

	Tobit
		Thisbe, in the Bible - Thisbe, in the Bible, town whence Tobit was carried, N of Jerusalem.
		Father-in-law of Tobias in the book of Tobit.
		He is prominent in the book of Tobit, as the companion of Tobias, as the...
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	The Book of Tobit
		I Tobit have walked all the days of my life in the ways of truth and justice, and I did many almsdeeds to my brethren, and my nation, who came with me to Nineve, into the land of the Assyrians.
		And Raphael was sent to heal them both, that is, to scale away the whiteness of Tobit’s eyes, and to give Sara the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodeus the evil spirit; because she belonged to Tobias by right of inheritance.
		Then Tobit went out to meet his daughter in law at the gate of Nineve, rejoicing and praising God: and they which saw him go marvelled, because he had received his sight.
	ebible.org /bible/kjv/Tobit.htm (6122 words)

	The book of TOBIT
		17 And Raphael was sent to heal the two of them: to scale away the white films of Tobit's eyes; to give Sarah the daughter of Raguel in marriage to Tobias the son of Tobit, and to bind Asmodeus the evil demon, because Tobias was entitled to possess her.
		But his son ran to him 11 and took hold of his father, and he sprinkled the gall upon his father's eyes, saying, "Be of good cheer, father." 12 And when his eyes began to smart he rubbed them, 13 and the white films scaled off from the corners of his eyes.
		12 1 Tobit then called his son Tobias and said to him, "My son, see to the wages of the man who went with you; and he must also be given more." 2 He replied, "Father, it would do me no harm to give him half of what I have brought back.
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		Tob 1:3 I Tobit have walked all the days of my life in the ways of truth and justice, and I did many almsdeeds to my brethren, and my nation, who came with me to Nineve, into the land of the Assyrians.
		Tob 3:17 And Raphael was sent to heal them both, that is, to scale away the whiteness of Tobit's eyes, and to give Sara the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodeus the evil spirit; because she belonged to Tobias by right of inheritance.
		Tob 11:10 Tobit also went forth toward the door, and stumbled: but his son ran unto him, Tob 11:11 And took hold of his father: and he strake of the gall on his fathers' eyes, saying, Be of good hope, my father.
	www.lib.umd.edu /ETC/ReadingRoom/Nonfiction/Apocrypha/book-of-tobit (6102 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Asmodeus
		The name is most probably derived from the Hebrew root meaning "to destroy": so that the being would correspond to the demon called Abaddon, the Destroyer in the Apocalypse, ix, 11.
		The Book of Tobias relates that the virgin Sara, the kinswoman of Tobias, had been given successively to seven husbands; but they had all been slain on the night of the nuptials, before the consummation of the marriage.
		From this fact, a superstition had arisen that the demon loved the maiden and slew her husbands through jealousy.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01792c.htm (270 words)

	NHNE: The Book of Tobit
		3:17 And Raphael was sent to heal the two of them: to scale away the white films of Tobit's eyes; to give Sarah the daughter of Raguel in marriage to Tobias the son of Tobit, and to bind Asmodeus the evil demon, because Tobias was entitled to possess her.
		But his son ran to him 11:11 and took hold of his father, and he sprinkled the gall upon his father's eyes, saying, "Be of good cheer, father." 11:12 And when his eyes began to smart he rubbed them, 11:13 and the white films scaled off from the corners of his eyes.
		12:1 Tobit then called his son Tobias and said to him, "My son, see to the wages of the man who went with you; and he must also be given more." 12:2 He replied, "Father, it would do me no harm to give him half of what I have brought back.
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