The Book of Tobit is found in the Catholic Bible. Its origins are somewhat murky but the best guess is that it was written sometime before the year 200 B.C. The book offers an image of fidelity to God by the Jewish people who were being scattered from their original homeland in Palestine and settling throughout the Greek-speaking world. No longer was faith in God fought on the stage of kingdoms and empires — the pharaoh, Philistines, Babylon. Now the faith must be lived in the home, on a domestic scale. We are introduced to husbands and wives and marriage arrangements and the tragedy of illness in the family. The book teaches us to live faithfully to God in the midst of the ordinary stuff of life.
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By Church Staff
