Tobit and the Angel on “wage”
marzo 12th, 2013
In this partial list of stories about the angels/malakhìms, we have decided to include the Book of Tobit, because it certainly is the least known of the Old Testament.
This text is part of the Christian Bible (the Septuagint and Latin Vulgate), but has not been accepted by the Hebrew canon and is considered apocryphal by Protestants. It has survived only in Greek based on an Aramaic version compiled in Judea around 200 BC and got unfortunately lost.
In 14 chapters it describes the story of the Jewish Tobias and his son Tobit, set in VIII-VII century BC.
We must immediately affirm that this writing is full of incongruences and obvious errors: it blurs the periods of Jews’ being exiled by the Assyrians, confusing with the names of the
Assyrian kings, and distorts geographical distances… It is no coincidence then that only Catholics consider it a book inspired by God, likewise all other texts of the Bible. But, since Catholics consider it inspired by God, we want to quote some of the features describing an “angel” of God, namely the messenger (àgghelos)
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