(DOWNLOAD) "Biblicized Narrative: On Tobit and Genesis 22." by Journal of Biblical Literature * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Biblicized Narrative: On Tobit and Genesis 22.
- Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 188 KB
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The book of Tobit is dense with biblical allusions, particularly to the books of Genesis and Job (the latter, according to a Jewish tradition to which the pattern of allusion in the book of Tobit may itself attest, is also set in the patriarchal period). (1) While readers have long taken note of many of these allusions, an important one appears to have gone unnoticed. I argue here that Tobit 6, which describes Tobiah's journey from Nineveh to Ecbatana in the company of his kinsman Azariah (in fact the angel Raphael), is patterned after Isaac's journey, in the company of his father Abraham, to the land of Moriah in Genesis 22. After arguing for this allusion in the first part of this essay, I turn in the second part to a discussion of its function in the book. I suggest that this and the other biblical allusions in Tobit should be understood not (or not only) as literary allusions of the sort that we find in literature of all periods but as manifestations of a particular sort of "canon consciousness" originating in the Second Temple period. I. Tobit 6 and Genesis 22