| Tobit and Judith Contributor(s): Otzen, Benedikt (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826460534 ISBN-13: 9780826460530 Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press OUR PRICE: $99.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2002 Annotation: A presentation of historical, literary and religious issues in the two Apocryphal books Tobit and Judith. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Studies - General |
| Dewey: 229.206 |
| LCCN: 2003284100 |
| Series: Guides to the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha |
| Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.22" W x 8.7" (0.49 lbs) 178 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Part of the popular textbook series introducing key themes and issues of books of the Apocrypha and Jewish Pseudepigrapha. The two apochryphal books, Tobit and Judith, are Jewish legends presumably created in the 3rd or 2nd century BCE, the first in the Eastern Diaspora, the other in Palestine. The events related are placed in the Assyrian epoch in the 7th century BCE. The book discusses the problems between real history and historical fiction, the genres and purposes of the two books, and the literary and religious motives of the tales. Also dealt with are textual problems such as the Greek text in the Septuagint vs. Hebrew and Aramaic Tobit-fragments from Qumran. |
