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
Patristic
- Tobit 2:4 - Ambrose On the Duty of the Clergy 3.16
- Tobit 2:14 - Cyprian Treatises 7:10
- Tobit 4:5 - Cyprian Treatises 8:20
- Tobit 4:10 - Didache 4:5
- Tobit 4:10 - 2 Clement 16:4
- Tobit 4:10 - Polycarp Epistle to the Philippians 10:2
- Tobit 4:10 - Cyprian Epistles 51
- Tobit 4:15 - Didache 1:2
- Tobit 4:15 - Clement of Alexandria Stromata 2.23
- Tobit 4:18 - Athanasius Defense of Constantius 17
- Tobit 7:11 - Ambrose On the Duty of the Clergy 3.16
- Tobit 12:7 - Athanasius Defense Against the Arians 1
- Tobit 12:7 - Dionysius Epistles 10
- Tobit 12:8 - Clement of Alexandria Stromata 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
- Tobit 12:12 - Cyprian Treatises 7:10
- Tobit 12:12 - Augustine City of God 1.13
- Tobit 12:19 - Augustine City of God 13.22
- Tobit 13:6 - Cyprian Treatises 11:15
- Tobit 14:8 - Cyprian Treatises 8:20