Delicious prose: reading the tale of Tobit with food and drink: a commentary
"In Delicious Prose: Reading the Tale of Tobit with Food and Drink, Naomi S.S. Jacobs explores how the numerous references to food, drink, and their consumption within The Book of Tobit help tell its story, promote righteous deeds and encourage resistance against a hostile dominant culture. Jac...
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| Summary: | "In Delicious Prose: Reading the Tale of Tobit with Food and Drink, Naomi S.S. Jacobs explores how the numerous references to food, drink, and their consumption within The Book of Tobit help tell its story, promote righteous deeds and encourage resistance against a hostile dominant culture. Jacobs' commentary includes up-to-date analyses of issues of translation, text-criticism, source criticism, redaction criticism, and issues of class and gender. Jacobs situates Tobit within a wide range of ancient writings sacred to Jews and Christians as well as writing and customs from the Ancient Near East, Ugarit, Greece, Rome, including a treasure trove of information about ancient foodways and medicine"... |
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| adam_text | Delicious Prose:
Reading the Tale of Tobit
with Food and Drink
A Commentary
By
Naomi S S Jacobs
681
BRILL
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Contents
Preface xi
Abbreviations and Sigla xv
Introduction 1
Background Issues for This Study 13
1 Storyline and Major Themes of Tobit 13
2 The Texts of Tobit 16
3 Possible Sources Utilised by the Book of Tobit 21
4 Questions of Redaction 25
5 Date and Provenance 26
6 Class, Gender, and Wealth 28
7 Tobit, Hybridity, and Resistance 30
8 How This Commentary is Organized 32
1 Walking in the Ways of Righteousness: Food and Eating in Tobit’s
Testimonial (Tob 1) 34
Tithes and First Fruits (1:6-8) 34
Gentile Food (1:10-11) 45
Food to the Hungry (1:17) 54
Conclusion 57
‘The Table Was Set Before Me’: Tobit’s Shavuot Meal, Its Aftermath,
and the Parallel Woes of Sarah (Tob 2-3) 59
1 The Shavuot Meal (2:1-7) 59
2 Blinding by Bird Droppings (2:9-10) 73
3 Ahiqar s Help (2:10) 75
4 Hannah’s Help and the Goat (2:11-14) 77
5 No Food in 3:1-17 86
6 Conclusion 86
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) 88
1 Overall Issues Important for Exegesis of Chapter 4 89
2 Hunger (or Famine) as Punishment (4:13) 90
3 Binge Drinking and Drunkenness (4:15) 93
VIII CONTENTS
4 Food to the Hungry (4:16) 99
5 Consumable Substance(s) on the Graves of the Righteous (4:17) 100
6 Preparations for the Journey (5:17) 106
7 Conclusion 107
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) 108
1 Tobit and the Hungry Fish (6:2-6) 109
2 Medicinal Organs (6,8,11) 123
3 Harvest (6:5-6) 125
4 Heart and Liver (6:7-8,17-18; 8:2-4) 127
5 Gall (6:9; 11:4-8,11-14) 132
6 Conclusion 135
5 ‘I Will Neither Eat nor Drink Here until You Resolve the Things
Concerning Me’: Food and Wedding Celebrations (Tob 7-9 and
Elsewhere) 136
1 A Proposed Wedding Celebration (6:13) 136
2 Wedding-Linked Meals in Ecbatana (7:9-14; 8:1, 8:19-20; 9:16) 139
3 The ‘Welcoming Meal’ (7:9-14; 8:1) 144
4 The Wedding Celebration in Ecbatana (8:19-20; 9:6) 159
5 The Length of the Fourteen-Day Wedding Celebration 169
6 Raphael, Gabael, and Tobiah at the Wedding Celebration (9:6) 170
7 The Wedding Celebration at Nineveh (11:19 [Not in S]) 173
8 A Second Reference to the Wedding Celebration in Nineveh
(12:1) 173
9 Conclusion 174
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) 176
1 Fasting 177
2 Consumption as Metaphor (12:9) 185
3 Praise for Delayed Eating (12:13) 186
4 Angelic Abstinence 12:19 189
5 Almost No Food in Chapters 13 and 14 198
6 Conclusion 199
CONTENTS IX
Conclusion 200
1 Relevance of Study for Ongoing Debates about Tobit 202
2 Conclusion 205
3 Epilogue 205
Bibliography 207
Index of Modem Authors 228
Index of Ancient Writings 233
Index of Important Hebrew, Aramaic/Syriac, Greek, and Latin Terms and
Phrases 258
Index of Subjects 263
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