Tobit: A comedy in error?

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: Cousland, J R C | Copyright information

HUMOR, once a feature all but overlooked by biblical scholars, has very much come into its own. Many of the canonical books have now been fruitfully examined from the standpoint of comedy, and the same is increasingly true for much of the intertestamental literature. In this respect, the Book of Tobit has occasioned particular notice: in the recent effusion of criticism devoted to the novella, the idea that the work is intentionally and unabashedly comic is fast emerging as part of a new crit...

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