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The Book Of Tobit
The Complete Deuterocanonical Story of Faith, the Angel Raphael, and Divine Healing
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Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36817426
EAN: 9798190729207
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Zustellung: Mo, 21.09.2026
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CHF 29.50
Beschreibung
Two people prayed for death on the same day. Heaven answered them both with the same angel. In the Assyrian city of Nineveh, a man named Tobit buries the dead his neighbors are too frightened to touch. It costs him everything. First his property, then his standing, and finally his sight. Six hundred miles east in Ecbatana, a young woman named Sarah has buried seven husbands, each one taken on the wedding night, and the servants in her own household have begun to say she is the reason. On the same afternoon, in two cities that have never heard of each other, both of them ask God to let them die. Both prayers are heard in the same hour. The answer walks into Tobit's house disguised as a hired traveling companion, offers to guide his son along a long and dangerous road, and does not say who he really is until the debt is collected, the demon is gone, the marriage is made and the blindness is healed. A story most readers were never handed. The Book of Tobit is scripture in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles and stands among the Apocrypha in the Anglican tradition. For a great many readers it simply vanished from the printed Bible somewhere in the last two centuries, which is why so few people today know why the archangel Raphael is pictured holding a fish, or where much of the church's language about guardian angels came from. This edition presents all fourteen chapters in a fresh, readable modern English rendering, prepared so the narrative moves as clearly for a reader today as it did for its first audience. What you will find inside. The full text of Tobit in clear modern English, chapter by chapter. A short reflection after every chapter, tying the ancient story to ordinary life. A written prayer at the close of each chapter. Discussion questions for private study or for a group. Three reading plans: one sitting, fourteen days, or eight weeks with a group. Background chapters on the archangel Raphael, the demon Asmodeus, the fish remedy, and why Tobit appears in some Bibles and not others. Guidance on praying through suffering and long seasons of waiting. A glossary of names, places and terms, plus suggested further reading. Who this edition is for. Catholic and Orthodox readers who want a devotional companion to a book they already receive as scripture. Anglican and Protestant readers meeting Tobit for the first time. Parish groups, book clubs and families reading aloud together. And anyone who has prayed the same prayer twice and wondered whether it was heard. Providence walks beside you long before you recognize it.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Serena Callahan
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 116