Tobit and Judith

by Benedikt Otzen

Part of the popular textbook series introducing key themes and issues of books of the Apocrypha and Jewish Pseudepigrapha. The two apochryphal books, Tobit and Judith, are Jewish legends presumably created in the 3rd or 2nd century BCE, the first in the Eastern Diaspora, the other in Palestine. The events related are placed in the Assyrian epoch in the 7th century BCE. The book discusses the problems between real history and historical fiction,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826460534
• ISBN13: 9780826460530
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 8.7"