Delicious Prose: Reading the Tale of Tobit with Food and Drink, : A Commentary.

• Superior document: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; Volume 188
• Author: Naomi S.S. Jacobs
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism 188.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 pages).

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’...

Table of Contents

• 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.