Delicious Prose: Reading the Tale of Tobit with Food and Drink
Autor Naomi S S Jacobsen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 noi 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004382442
ISBN-10: 9004382445
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 163 x 241 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:Adnotată
Editura: Brill
ISBN-10: 9004382445
Pagini: 296
Dimensiuni: 163 x 241 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:Adnotată
Editura: Brill
Notă biografică
Naomi S.S. Jacobs Ph.D (2007), Durham University, has written extensively on Tobit, including for The Jewish Annotated Apocrypha (Oxford, 2018), “Scribal Innovation in the Book of Tobit: A Long Overdue Discussion” and “What About the Dog?: Tobit’s Mysterious Canine Revisited.”
Recenzii
"De lectura sencilla, agradable y sorprendente en algunos casos, esta obra se convertirá, sin duda, en un punto de referencia para los estudiosos del libro de Tob no solo en cuanto a su tratamiento de la comida y bebida, sino también a nivel de crítica textual y redaccional."
Emilio Lopez Navas, Gregorianum 2021
Emilio Lopez Navas, Gregorianum 2021
Cuprins
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
1 Walking 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
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
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
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
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 S); 12:1)
8 A Second Reference to the Wedding Celebration (12:1)
9 Conclusion
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
General Index
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Writings
Index of Important Hebrew, Aramaic/Syriac, Greek, and Latin Term and Phrases
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
1 Walking 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
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
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
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
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 S); 12:1)
8 A Second Reference to the Wedding Celebration (12:1)
9 Conclusion
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
General Index
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Writings
Index of Important Hebrew, Aramaic/Syriac, Greek, and Latin Term and Phrases