"This volume discusses various conceptions of family and kinship in the context of deuterocanonical literature. After analyzing the topic family in a narrow sense of the term, the articles investigate general ideas of morality, respect, or love and take a critical look at repres…
"The Book of Tobit, the Dead Sea Scrolls fragments of which have been recently published by Fitzmyer, is a tale about the efforts of a Jewish family to remain faithful while living in the diaspora. In this commentary on the Book of Tobit, Fitzmyer draws together his linguistic, …
"The Book of Tobit, the Dead Sea Scrolls fragments of which have been recently published by Fitzmyer, is a tale about the efforts of a Jewish family to remain faithful while living in the diaspora. In this commentary on the Book of Tobit, Fitzmyer draws together his linguistic, …
Scholars have shown renewed interest in the Book of Tobit since fragments of the text were found at Qumran. However, the wisdom instructions of Tobit 4 have remained largely ignored. The present study provides an extensive treatment of this important section, reading Tobit's wis…
Scholars have shown renewed interest in the Book of Tobit since fragments of the text were found at Qumran. However, the wisdom instructions of Tobit 4 have remained largely ignored. The present study provides an extensive treatment of this important section, reading Tobit's wis…
Although in Second Temple literature we find a variety of songs concerned with the future of Jerusalem, little attempt has been made to analyse these comparatively as a generic group. In this study, three songs have been selected on the basis of their similarity in style, ideas …
