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Tobit is the story of a righteous, devout, and charitable man who—blind and miserable—sends his son, Tobiah, to collect on an old loan. To test his faith, an angel joins Tobiah on his journey, and in the end Tobiah returns with the money, a beautiful bride, and a miraculous cure for his father’s affliction. Tobit’s story touches us precisely because it tells the tale of simple, hardworking...

in Ezra 9:6–15; Neh 1:5–11; 9:6–38; Dan 9:4–19; and Bar 1–3. The prayer’s basic theology, especially in vv 2–5, is deuteronomistic, i.e., “Do good and prosper; do evil and be punished” (cf. Deut 7:12–16; 28:1–30:20; Judg 2:11–15). Craghan, however, is ahead of the story when he claims that in the prayer “Tobit believes that his virtue will ultimately triumph, even though he suffers at the present” (139). That question will not be resolved for Tobit himself until Chap. 12; and for the Jewish people,
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