• ‘What About the Dog?’: Tobit’s Mysterious Canine Revisited.

    Author(s):
    Naomi Susan Schwartz Jacobs (see profile)
    Date:
    2014
    Subject(s):
    Bible. Apocrypha, Folklore--Study and teaching, Homer, Judaism--Post-exilic period (Judaism)
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    dogs, Apocrypha, Folklore studies, Hebrew bible, Second Temple Judaism, Septuagint
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6MK6576Z
    Abstract:
    Readers have long wondered what is the meaning of the dog that briefly appears in the Jewish fairy tale known as the Book of Tobit. This article considers common answers such as influence from Ahikar, the Odyssey, influence of Persian culture and influence of folktale and goes into depth of the dog's significance in human culture, especially in connection with healing and defeating dragons and evil spirits and raises questions about the dog's possible connection to the archangel Raphael.
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    Publisher:
    De Gruyter
    Pub. Date:
    2014
    Book Title:
    Canonicity, Setting, Wisdom in the Deuterocanicals: Papers of the Jubilee Meeting of the Internatinal Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books
    Author/Editor:
    Géza G. Xeravits, Jozsef Zsengellér, Xavér Szabó.
    Page Range:
    221 - 246
    ISBN:
    9783110372625 3110372622
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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