Tobit

Michele Murray is professor in the department of religion, society, and culture at Bishop’s University, in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, where she served as the dean of arts and science, and dean of arts, for a decade. She holds an MA in Second Temple period Jewish history from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a PhD in religion, specializing in Christian origins, from the University of Toronto. Her research areas include Jewish-Christian relations in the ancient world, and interaction among Eastern-Mediterranean religions in late antiquity; she is the author of Playing a Jewish Game: Gentile Christian Judaizing in the First and Second Centuries CE (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004), and several articles and book chapters.

Contents
Acknowledgments    ix
List of Abbreviations    xi
List of Contributors    xiii
Foreword: “Tell It on the Mountain”—or, “And You Shall Tell Your Daughter [as Well]”    xv
     Athalya Brenner-Idan
Editor’s Introduction to Wisdom Commentary: “She Is a Breath of the Power of God” (Wis 7:25)    xix
     Barbara E. Reid, OP
Authors’ Introduction: Setting the Scene    xxxix
Tobit 1–2 When Bad Things Happen to Good People    1
Tobit 3 When Your Husbands Keep Dying    55
Tobit 4 Living a Good Life    87
Tobit 5–6 How to Hire an Angel    107
Tobit 7–9 Ridding Your Life of a Demon in One Simple Step    131
Tobit 10 The Good Mother    171
Tobit 11 Sarah Arrives at Her New Home    183
Tobit 12 An Angel Is Revealed (to the Men)    195
Tobit 13–14 Restoration    207 
Conclusion: Feminist Commentaries Are Not for the Faint of Heart    229
Works Cited    231
Index of Scripture References and Other Ancient Writings    257
Index of Subjects    265