Summary of Tobit (View)
Date: 225-175 B.C.E.
Description: The book of Tobit is a fanciful story that combines depictions of a Jewish extended family with comedy, magical cures, demons bound and cast into Egypt, and happy weddings. Beneath this surface are biblical themes and affirmations of Jewish values, reinforced by the very names of the characters: Tobit is also Tobi-yah, “Yahweh is good.” His wife is named Anna, or Hannah, “Grace,” and the angel Raphael, “El has healed,” in his human guise is also named Azariah, “Yahweh has helped.” Sarah bears the name of the matriarch.
Wills, Lawrence M. Introduction to the Apocrypha: Jewish Books in Christian Bibles, Yale University Press, 2021
Hebrew Bible
Pseudepigrapha
New Testament
- Tobit 2:2 - Luke 14:13
- Tobit 3:8 - Mark 12:20
- Tobit 4:6 - John 3:21
- Tobit 4:8 - Matthew 19:21
- Tobit 4:8 - Mark 12:43
- Tobit 4:8 - 2 Corinthians 8:12
- Tobit 4:14 - James 5:4
- Tobit 4:15 - Matthew 7:12
- Tobit 4:15 - Ephesians 5:18
- Tobit 4:19 - Romans 9:18
- Tobit 8:6 - Acts 17:26
- Tobit 11:9 - Luke 2:27
- Tobit 12:8 - Acts 20:35
- Tobit 12:9 - James 5:20
- Tobit 12:9 - 1 Peter 4:8
- Tobit 12:9 - Luke 11:41
- Tobit 12:12 - Revelation 8:2
- Tobit 12:15 - Revelation 1:4
- Tobit 12:16 - Revelation 1:17
- Tobit 13:16 - Revelation 21:18
- Tobit 14:4 - Matthew 23:36
- Tobit 14:6 - Revelation 7:9
Patristic
- Tobit 4:10 - Didache 4:5
- Tobit 4:10 - 2 Clement 16:4
- Tobit 4:10 - Polycarp Epistle to the Philippians 10:2
- Tobit 4:15 - Didache 1:2
- Tobit 4:15 - Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book 2 23
- Tobit 4:18 - Athanasius Defense of Constantius 17
- Tobit 12:7 - Athanasius Defense Against the Arians 1
- Tobit 12:8 - Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book 6.12
- Tobit 12:8 - 2 Clement 16:4
- Tobit 12:8 - Cyprian Treatises 4:32
- Tobit 12:9 - Didache 4:6
- Tobit 12:9 - Cyprian Treatises 8:5
- Tobit 12:12 - Cyprian Treatises 4:33