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1.2.4 Critical Problems with Diachronic Analysis
1.3 Indications of Narrative Integrity
1.3.1 The Dynamics of Allusion
1.3.1.1 Extra-biblical Influences on Tobit
1.3.1.2 Biblical Influences on Tobit
1.3.2 Narrative Signs, Designs and Resolutions
1.3.3 Literary and Theological Reasons for Narrative Shift
Chapter 2: The Wisdom Instructions in Tob 4:3-19, 21; 12:6-10 and 14:8-11
2.1 The Textual Situation of Tobit 4
2.1.1 The Wisdom Instructions of Tobit 4 as Insertions
2.1.2 The Original Incorporation of the Instructions
2.1.3 A Case of Scribal Error in Transmission
2.2 Observations on the Narrative and Formal Features of Tobit 4
2.2.1 Narratological Considerations
2.2.2 Imperatives and Vetitives
2.2.3 Suggested Structure
2.2.3.1 The Lex Generalis
2.2.3.2 The Leitwort in the Instructions
2.3 The Hortatory Words of Rafael in Tob 12:6-10
2.3.1 The Two Chief Instructions of Rafael
2.3.1.1 Tobit and Fasting
2.3.1.2 ‘Prayer with Truth’ and ‘Almsgiving with Justice’
2.3.2 Proclaim the Words of God
2.4 Tobit’s Farewell Instructions in Tob 4:8-11
Chapter 3: The Narrative Function of Tobit’s Instructions
3.1 Tobit as an Ancient Novel
3.1.2 A Tale of Two Genres
3.2.1 The Shape of the Story
3.2.1.1 The “How” and the “What” of Tobit
3.2.1.2 The Five Narrative Movements
3.2.1.3 The Ultimate State of Lack in the Narrative
3.2.1.4 Narrative Structure and the Wisdom Instructions
3.2.2 The Characterization of Tobit
3.2.3 Repetition as a Literary Device
3.2.3.1 Varied Repetition
3.2.3.2 Similar yet Different
3.3 The Narrative Role of Tobit’s Instructions
3.3.1 Tobit’s Wisdom Discourse and Plot
3.3.1.1 Tobit’s Wisdom Instructions as Preparatory for the Journey
3.3.1.2 “To be or not to be”: The Character of Tobias as Key
3.3.1.3 The Plot as an Illustration of a Sapiential Conviction
3.3.2 Allusive Strategy and Tobit’s Instructions
3.3.2.1 The Book of Tobit and Exodus
3.3.2.2 The Variations and their Significance
3.4 The Narrative Role of Rafael’s Instructions
3.4.1 From Ignorance to Knowledge
3.4.2 Rafael as Wisdom Teacher
3.5 The Gospel of Ahiqar According to Tobit
3.5.1 The Story of Ahiqar
3.5.2 The Function of the Story of Ahiqar
3.5.2.1 The Story of Ahiqar as a Validation of a Teaching
3.5.2.2 Variations on a Theme
Chapter 4: The Wisdom Tradition and the Instructions of Tobit
4.1 The Wisdom Tradition in Israel
4.1.1 The Development of the Wisdom Tradition in Israel
4.1.1.2 Wisdom Activity in the Court and in the School
4.1.1.3 The Wisdom Tradition after the Exile
4.1.2 The Book of Tobit and the Wisdom Tradition
4.2 Traces of the Wisdom Tradition in Tobit
4.2.1 The Sapiential Appeal
4.2.1.1 The Epistemological Assumption
4.2.1.2 The Validity of the Wisdom Tradition
4.2.2 The Family as Context
4.2.3 The Prominence of Divine Providence
4.2.3.1 The Movement of the Divine Hand
4.2.3.2 The Metaphor of ‘the way’
4.2.4 The Formation of the Habits of the Heart
4.3 Emerging Themes of the Wisdom Tradition in Tobit
4.3.1 Wisdom and National History
4.3.2 Prayer and the Wise
4.3.3 The Nexus of Act/Character and Consequence
4.3.3.1 The Doctrine of Retribution
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Chapter 5: Tobit and Wisdom in Exile
5.1 A Question of Purpose
5.2 The Sapiential and Cultic Traditions
5.2.1 The Increasing Prominent Role of Wisdom
5.2.3 Tobit and the Law of Moses
5.3.1 Tobit’s Deuteronomic Explanation of Exile
5.3.2 Exile as an Interim Time
5.3.3 Exile as Root Metaphor
5.4.1 Practices that Foster Unity and Identity
5.4.1.1 Genealogy as Constitutive of Identity
5.4.1.2 Acts of Solidarity
5.4.1.3 Preferential Option for the Disposition of the Believer
5.4.2 Instruction in the Wisdom of the Fathers
5.4.2.1 Education in Wisdom
5.4.2.2 Wisdom as Link Across Time and Place
5.4.2.3 The Superiority of God’s Wisdom
Chapter 3: The Narrative Function of Tobit’s Instructions
Chapter 4: The Wisdom Tradition and the Instructions of Tobit
Chapter 5: Tobit and Wisdom in Exile
The Wisdom Instructions in the Book of Tobit
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