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Details and discussion in Allen Wikgren, “Tobit,” Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible, 4 vols. (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1962), vol. 4, p. 660; Dancy, Shorter Books, p. 35; Frank Zimmermann, The Book of Tobit (New York: Harper & Bros., 1958), pp. 15–16.

Nowell, “Book of Tobit,” p. 45, suggests that the author might have drawn the reference to Shalmaneser from 2 Kings 17:1–6 and 18:9–13.

William Soll, “Tobit and Folklore Studies, with Emphasis on Propp’s Morphology,” in SBL 1988 Seminar Papers, ed. David J. Lull (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988), p. 51.

J.C. Dancy, The Shorter Books of the Apocrypha (Cambridge: University Press, 1972), p. 39, observes that fish gall was regularly recommended in ancient medical texts to treat leukoma.

See Mordechai A. Friedman, “Tamar, a Symbol of Life: The ‘Killer Wife’ Superstition in the Bible and Jewish Tradition,” Association for Jewish Studies Review 15.1 (1990), pp. 33–35.

Irene Nowell, “The Book of Tobit: Narrative Technique and Theology,” Ph.D. dissertation, Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C., 1983), p. 203, using Sinaiticus.

See Frank Moore Cross, “Excursus on the Palaeographical Dating of the Copper Document,” in DJD 3, pp. 217–221.

An important exception is B.Z. Lurie, The Copper Scroll from the Judaean Desert, Publications of the Israel Bible Research Society 14 (Jerusalem: Kiryat-Sepher, 1963) (in Hebrew).

Lehmann, “Identification of the Copper Scroll,” p. 99.

Cf. Lehmann, “Identification of the Copper Scroll,” pp. 99–100.