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The Book of Tobit (/ ˈ t oʊ b ɪ t /) [a] [b] is an apocryphal Jewish work from the 3rd or early 2nd century BCE which describes how God tests the faithful, responds to prayers, and protects the covenant community (i.e., the Israelites). [1]
Nov 2, 2024 · For them, the Old Testament should only contain books that were part of the Hebrew Bible, which meant the Deuterocanonical books had to go. Thus, in Protestant Bibles, we often find the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the Apocrypha, a section that includes books such as Tobit, Judith, and 1 and 2 Maccabees.
The unpopularity of this move in some circles compelled Jerome repeatedly to justify his adherence to the Hebrew text. Similarly, in his Preface to Samuel and Kings (the “Helmeted Preface” or Prologus galeatus) he famously advocated the Hebrew canon as the Christian Old Testament and relegated all other books to the apocrypha. As part of ...
And Ruffinus, speaking of the matter as not at all controverted, declares with Jerome that Ecclesiasticus, the Wisdom of Solomon, Tobit, Judith, and the history of the Maccabees, were called by the Fathers not canonical but ecclesiastical books, which might indeed be read to the people, but were not entitled to establish doctrine.
Introduction I. The Quotations and Jerome's "Conversion" to Hebrew II. Seven Texts on the Quotations III. Analysis of Ep. 57 1. The Quot. agrees with the Hebrew Text but disagrees with the LXX 2. The Quot., Hebrew Text and LXX all disagrees with one another 3. The Hebrew Text agrees with the LXX, but the Quot. disagrees with both of them IV.
- Edmon Gallagher
Testament and relegated all other books to the apocrypha.2 As part of this latter category, Jerome named six books outside the Jewish canon that were finding acceptance as fully canonical in some quarters and would much later receive the label "deuterocanonical," these books being Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon,
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The book of Tobit is one of the Deuterocanonical books, also known as the Apocrypha. As such, it is generally not included among Protestant Christians’ list of canonical texts, while it is for Roman Catholics and most Orthodox traditions. There is no evidence that the text was ever “canonical” in the Jewish tradition.
