... In the story of the fleeing prophet, his being swallowed by the fish, becomes the occasion for a special return to God. In fact, once in the fish’s belly (see Jonah 2:1), the “first thing” Jonah does, is pray (see Jonah 2:2–11). That prayer, put by the narrator in Jonah’s mouth, begins with a recognition for God’s salvific action (see Jonah 2:3). In Tobit story, at least at first sight, we do not find a parallel effect, at least not regarding Tobiah. In effect, in Tobit 6, the narrator refrains from characterizing Tobiah from a religious point of view (leaving it to chapter eight). Furthermore, Jonah, spewed out of the fish belly, finally accepts God’s call, and goes to Nineveh to deliver the divine message. After complete victory over the fish, symbolized in Tobiah’s keeping of it as food and medicine, Tobiah accepts freely the divine ordinance of marrying Sarah, fully aware of the deadly threat that expects him in the killer demon Asmodeus. God in both stories is presented as “LORD/God of heaven.” In light of all the evidence just presented, Levine seems correct in seeing Tobiah’s interaction with the big fish an intentional parody of the book of Jonah. In that regard one could say that Tobit’s author depicts Tobiah as an anti-Jonah character ...