Abstract:The Book of Tobit is an ancient Jewish novel that tells the story of Israelites deported from their homeland to the Assyrian Empire in the late eighth century
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(an event mentioned in the Hebrew Bible: 2 Kgs 15:29, 17:3–6).
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