TY  - BOOK
AU  - Naomi S.S.Jacobs
TI  - Delicious Prose: Reading the Tale of Tobit with Food and Drink, : A Commentary
SN  - 9789004382473
AV  - BS1725.53 .J33 2018
U1  - 229/.2207 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Leiden, , Boston: 
PB  - Brill, 
KW  - Food in the Bible
N1  - Front Matter --; Copyright page; Naomi S. S. Jacobs --; Dedication; Naomi S. S. Jacobs --; Preface; Naomi S. S. Jacobs --; Abbreviations and Sigla; Naomi S. S. Jacobs --; Introduction; Naomi S. S. Jacobs --; Background Issues for This Study; Naomi S. S. Jacobs --; Walking in the Ways of Righteousness: Food and Eating in Tobit’s Testimonial (Tob. 1); Naomi S. S. Jacobs --; ‘The Table Was Set Before Me’: Tobit’s Shavuot Meal, Its Aftermath, and the Parallel Woes of Sarah (Tob. 2–3); Naomi S. S. Jacobs --; ‘Live Uprightly All the Days of Your Life’: Food and Drink in Tobit’s Testament and the Preparations for Tobiah’s Journey (Tob. 4–5); Naomi S. S. Jacobs --; ‘Leaping Up from the Water, a Great Fish’: An Eat-or-Be Eaten Struggle and the Acquisition of Medicinal Fish Organs (Tob. 6 and Its Echoes in 8 and 11); Naomi S. S. Jacobs --; ‘I Will Neither Eat nor Drink Here until You Resolve the Things Concerning Me’: Food and Wedding Celebrations (Tob. 7–9 and Elsewhere); Naomi S. S. Jacobs --; ‘And Observe [Me] That I Did Not Eat Anything But [That] a Vision Was Beheld By You’: Tobiah’s Return to Nineveh, Raphael’s Revelation, and the Story’s Closure (Tob. 10–14); Naomi S. S. Jacobs --; Conclusion; Naomi S. S. Jacobs --; Back Matter --; Bibliography; Naomi S. S. Jacobs
N2  - In Delicious Prose: Reading the Tale of Tobit with Food and Drink , Naomi S.S. Jacobs explores how the numerous references to food, drink, and their consumption within The Book of Tobit help tell its story, promote righteous deeds and encourage resistance against a hostile dominant culture. Jacobs’ commentary includes up-to-date analyses of issues of translation, text-criticism, source criticism, redaction criticism, and issues of class and gender. Jacobs situates Tobit within a wide range of ancient writings sacred to Jews and Christians as well as writings and customs from the Ancient Near East, Ugarit, Greece, Rome, including a treasure trove of information about ancient foodways and medicine
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004382473
ER  -