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Tobit, blind and burdened by misfortune, remembers he entrusted a significant sum of money to a man named Gabael, living far away in Media. Twenty years prior, to be exact! But how...
Remember Tobiyyah (sometimes called Tobias), our hero? He's on this epic journey to retrieve some money for his blind father, Tobit. And he's got the angel Raphael disguised as a h...
The Book of Tobit, a beautiful story nestled in the Apocrypha, knows all about that feeling. We find ourselves with Tobiyyah, son of Tobit, who's just married Sarah, daughter of Re...
We're diving into the Letter of Aristeas, a fascinating text that offers a glimpse into the world of Hellenistic Judaism. Imagine you're an advisor to a powerful king, and you're t...
We're about to dive into a story where freeing a people became not just a political act, but an offering to the Divine. Imagine this: King Ptolemy Philadelphus, ruler of Egypt in t...
That's the backdrop to our story today, a story of liberation, wisdom, and a little bit of royal generosity. We're diving into the Letter of Aristeas, a fascinating text that purpo...
That's the request King Ptolemy II Philadelphus supposedly received, and it kicks off the fascinating story we find in the Letter of Aristeas. Now, this letter, attributed to someo...
It’s a fascinating document, purporting to be written by a Greek official named Aristeas to his brother Philocrates. In it, he describes the process of commissioning the translatio...
I’m talking about the kind of gathering described in the Letter of Aristeas, a text that purports to tell the story of how the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek, creating the ...
