Category: Apocrypha

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  • Tobit- Righteous in His Own Eyes

    Tobit- Righteous in His Own Eyes

    Tobit 1 v. 3-9 Tobit’s monologue in 1:3-3:1, reveals much about what 3rd Century B.C. Jews valued. These values would remain into and through the 1st Century A.D, during Jesus’ physical ministry on this earth. During His ministry, Jesus would address many of the things that became popular in the religious teaching of the Jews.…

  • The Setting of Tobit

    The Setting of Tobit

    Chapter 1 v. 1-2 This book tells the story of Tobit son of Tobiel son of Hananiel son of Aduel son of Gabael son of Raphael of the descendants of Asiel, of the tribe of Naphtali, who in the days of King Shalmaneser of the Assyrians was taken into captivity from Thisbe, which is to…

  • Introduction to Tobit, the apocryphal work

    Introduction to Tobit, the apocryphal work

    Tobit can be found in the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Slavonic (Russian Orthodox) Bibles. Neither the Jews, Protestants, nor Anglicans recognize Tobit as canonical. The book gets its name from the main character, Tobit. The oldest versions of this book have survived in the Greek,  Old Latin, and Jerome’s Vulgate (see the introduction to…

  • Why is the Apocrypha included in the Roman Catholic Bible but not in the Protestant Bible?

    Why is the Apocrypha included in the Roman Catholic Bible but not in the Protestant Bible?

    Submit your questions using the contact form, on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or LinkedIn. The Apocrypha, a word meaning “secret writings,” is a collection if intertestamental works (written between the Old and New Testaments of the Bible) that were not included in the Hebrew Old Testament and do not meet the criterion for the New Testament.…