The Book of Tobit: Text, Tradition, Theology; Papers of the First International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Pápa, Hungary, 20-21 May 2004

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GÉZA G. XERAVITS and JÓZSEF ZSENGELLÉR (eds.), The Book of Tobit: Text, Tradition, Theology; Papers of the First International Conference on the Deuterocanonical Books, Papa, Hungary, 20-21 May 2004 (JSJSup 98; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2005). Pp. x + 234. euro79.

In a brief preface the editors explain that the Reformed Theological Academy of Papa, Hungary, inaugurated a research center called Shime'on Centre for the Study of Hellenistic and Roman Age Judaism and Christianity. One of th...

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