Delicious prose: reading the Tale of Tobit with food and drink : a commentary
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Sigla -- Introduction -- Background Issues for This Study -- 1 Storyline and Major Themes of Tobit -- 2 The Texts of Tobit -- 3 Possible Sources Utilised by the Book of Tobit -- 4 Questions of Redaction -- 5 Date and Provenance -- 6 Class, Gender, an...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston
BRILL
2018
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| In: |
Journal for the study of Judaism (volume 188)
Year: 2018 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Jacobs, Naomi, 1953-, Delicious prose : reading the Tale of Tobit with food and drink : a commentary] (2020) (Anderson, Gary A., 1955 -)
[Rezension von: Jacobs, Naomi, 1953-, Delicious prose : reading the Tale of Tobit with food and drink : a commentary] (2020) (Macatangay, Francis M.) |
| Series/Journal: | Journal for the study of Judaism Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism
volume 188 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Tobit
/ Lebensmittel
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| Further subjects: | B
Commentary
B Bible |
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| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Sigla -- Introduction -- Background Issues for This Study -- 1 Storyline and Major Themes of Tobit -- 2 The Texts of Tobit -- 3 Possible Sources Utilised by the Book of Tobit -- 4 Questions of Redaction -- 5 Date and Provenance -- 6 Class, Gender, and Wealth -- 7 Tobit, Hybridity, and Resistance -- 8 How This Commentary is Organized -- Chapter 1Walking in the Ways of Righteousness: Food and Eating in Tobit's Testimonial (Tob. 1) -- 1 Tithes and First Fruits (1:6-8) -- 2 Gentile Food (1:10-11) -- 3 Food to the Hungry (1:17) -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 'The Table Was Set Before Me': Tobit's Shavuot Meal, Its Aftermath, and the Parallel Woes of Sarah (Tob. 2-3) -- 1 The Shavuot Meal (2:1-7) -- 2 Blinding by Bird Droppings (2:9-10) -- 3 Ahiqar's Help (2:10) -- 4 Hannah's Help and the Goat (2:11-14) -- 5 No Food in 3:1-17 -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 'Live Uprightly All the Days of Your Life': Food and Drink in Tobit's Testament and the Preparations for Tobiah's Journey (Tob. 4-5) -- 1 Overall Issues Important for Exegesis of Chapter 4 -- 2 Hunger (or Famine) as Punishment (4:13) -- 3 Binge Drinking and Drunkenness (4:15) -- 4 Food to the Hungry (4:16) -- 5 Consumable Substance(s) on the Graves of the Righteous (4:17) -- 6 Preparations for the Journey (5:17) -- 7 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 'Leaping Up from the Water, a Great Fish': An Eat-or-Be Eaten Struggle and the Acquisition of Medicinal Fish Organs (Tob. 6 and Its Echoes in 8 and 11) -- 1 Tobit and the Hungry Fish (6:2-6) -- 2 Medicinal Organs (6, 8, 11) -- 3 Harvest (6:5-6) -- 4 Heart and Liver (6:7-8, 17-18 -- 8:2-4) -- 5 Gall (6:9 -- 11:4-8, 11-14) -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 'I Will Neither Eat nor Drink Here until You Resolve the Things Concerning Me': Food and Wedding Celebrations (Tob. 7-9 and Elsewhere) 1 A Proposed Wedding Celebration (6:13) -- 2 Wedding-Linked Meals in Ecbatana (7:9-14 -- 8:1 -- 8:19-20 -- 9:16) -- 3 The 'Welcoming Meal' (7:9-14 -- 8:1) -- 4 The Wedding Celebration in Ecbatana (8:19-20 -- 9:6) -- 5 The Length of the Fourteen-Day Wedding Celebration -- 6 Raphael, Gabael and Tobiah at the Wedding Celebration (9:6) -- 7 The Wedding Celebration at Nineveh (11:19 [Not in S]) -- 8 A Second Reference to the Wedding Celebration in Nineveh (12:1) -- 9 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 'And Observe [Me] That I Did Not Eat Anything But [That] a Vision Was Beheld By You': Tobiah's Return to Nineveh, Raphael's Revelation, and the Story's Closure (Tob. 10-14) -- 1 Fasting -- 2 Consumption as Metaphor (12:9) -- 3 Praise for Delayed Eating (12:13) -- 4 Angelic Abstinence 12:19 -- 5 Almost No Food in Chapters 13 and 14 -- 6 Conclusion -- Conclusion -- 1 Relevance of Study for Ongoing Debates about Tobit -- 2 Conclusion -- 3 Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Ancient Writings -- Index of Important Hebrew, Aramaic/Syriac, Greek, and Latin Term and Phrases -- Index of Subjects |
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| ISBN: | 900438247X |