TY - BOOK
T1 - The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis
AU - Toloni, Giancarlo
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The story of Tobit builds on various themes derived from myth, legend and folktale. Tobiah’s journey recalls Homer’s Odyssey, the suffering of the righteous brings to mind the legend of Job, and the narrative around a disgraced and then rehabilitated official evokes the story of Aḥiqar. The author of Tobit seeks to exploit his readers’ knowledge of these stories in order to convey his message more effectively: he encourages them to trust in divine providence that intervenes on behalf of the faithful.
This volume, based on essays previously published in Italian, collected and translated into English, and some still unedited, written directly in English for this book, charts Tobit’s narrative sources through comparative literary analysis, firmly placing the story in the genre of the didactic and edifying religious novel.
AB - The story of Tobit builds on various themes derived from myth, legend and folktale. Tobiah’s journey recalls Homer’s Odyssey, the suffering of the righteous brings to mind the legend of Job, and the narrative around a disgraced and then rehabilitated official evokes the story of Aḥiqar. The author of Tobit seeks to exploit his readers’ knowledge of these stories in order to convey his message more effectively: he encourages them to trust in divine providence that intervenes on behalf of the faithful.
This volume, based on essays previously published in Italian, collected and translated into English, and some still unedited, written directly in English for this book, charts Tobit’s narrative sources through comparative literary analysis, firmly placing the story in the genre of the didactic and edifying religious novel.
KW - Bibbia ebraica, Apocrifi, Pseudepigrafi, studi biblici, filologia biblica, Libro di Tobia, Libro di Giobbe, Omero: Odissea, viaggio di Tobia, Giobbe, sofferenza del giusto, Storia di Aḥiqar, funzionario in disgrazia, Diaspora giudaica, narratologia, racco
KW - Hebrew Bible, Apocryphal Books, Pseudepigrapha, Biblical Studies, Biblical Philology, Book of Tobit, Book of Job, Homer’s Odyssey, Tobiah’s journey, Job, suffering of the righteous man, Story of Aḥiqar, disgraced official, Jewish Diaspora, Narratology, Fo
KW - Bibbia ebraica, Apocrifi, Pseudepigrafi, studi biblici, filologia biblica, Libro di Tobia, Libro di Giobbe, Omero: Odissea, viaggio di Tobia, Giobbe, sofferenza del giusto, Storia di Aḥiqar, funzionario in disgrazia, Diaspora giudaica, narratologia, racco
KW - Hebrew Bible, Apocryphal Books, Pseudepigrapha, Biblical Studies, Biblical Philology, Book of Tobit, Book of Job, Homer’s Odyssey, Tobiah’s journey, Job, suffering of the righteous man, Story of Aḥiqar, disgraced official, Jewish Diaspora, Narratology, Fo
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/240478
UR - https://brill.com/display/title/60565
M3 - Book
SN - 9789004519442 - EISBN 9789004519459
VL - 204
T3 - SUPPLEMENTS TO THE JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF JUDAISM
BT - The Story of Tobit: A Comparative Literary Analysis
PB - Brill
ER -