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Tobit is one of the Apocrypha, a collection of books rejected from their canon by the Jews but accepted by some of the Christian church fathers. Ever since the 4th century CE, commentaries have been written on Tobit. The original Hebrew and Aramaic versions of Tobit were lost, until fragments were discovered as part of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947. The present work is the first Greek text and...

of Raphael (12:6), “Bless God and acknowledge before all living people the good things he has done for you. By blessing and praising his name, make known to all mankind with honor the words of God and do not shirk to acknowledge him.” A central theme of the book of Tobit is kinship; see Hieke (2005); Bow (1991: 127–143); Soll (1998); Pitkän (2006). This drives the two most important actions of the plot, Tobit’s burial of the dead, and the marriage
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