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God is the Creator of all and cares deeply for all that he has
made. His vision for creation is seen through a world teeming with
life where eternity is breathed into and through all creation.
Jesus teaches that humans must live with a spirit of generosity and
restraint; however, a spirit of meanness and greed dominates human
culture and leaves nearly 1.3 billion people living on less than $1
a day. The politics of globalization based on principles of greed
have resulted in the loss of biodiversity, deforestation, and a
shortage of food and clean water. Jesus teaches that those who are
generous are blessed, and such generosity brings justice to all
creation. There cannot be God's social justice without ecological
sanity, and yet we tend to speak of social justice as though
non-human creation doesn't matter. God cares even for the flowers
of the field, yet we show contempt for God in our careless plunder
of his creation. To love God is to love all that he has made, from
our own families to the soil outside our homes.
The essays collected here approach the book of Tobit from a range
of disciplines: literary, feminist, anthropological, imagination,
theological, textual and historical. This multi-disciplinary
approach will generate new ideas and approaches to the book of
Tobit. The essays vary not only in methodology used, but also in
the texts that they examine. The book considers in detail some
Latin manuscripts, encompassing an article introducing a print of
the Ceriani Latin text, and includes an overview of the Old Latin
textual tradition and context. There is a comparison between two
Greek manuscripts of Tobit 14 and a re-examination of the place of
origin of the text. A social anthropological reading of the book is
also included. The subject of Tobit in 17th century novels is
considered, along with a study of Kierkergard and Tobit. Also
incorporated is an examination of the Aramaic fragments from
Qumran, and their significance to New Testament studies.
Intertextual studies of the book are considered in reference to the
influence of Deuteronomy and the significance this has for exegesis
of Tobit is analyzed. This is volume 55 in the Library of Second
Temple Studies series (formerly the Journal for the Study of the
Pseudepigrapha Supplement series).
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