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Padraig_77
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I was looking up some information on defending the Deuterocanonicals and I found some Protestant arguments against them that I am looking for an answer to:
One site says:
“The writer of Tobit makes Sennacherib the son (1 15), as well as the successor of Enemessar, whereas, according to the Assyrian inscriptions, Sennacherib was the son of Sargon. This is only one of several serious historical difficulties in the narrative of Tobit.”
“In Tobit 14:1, it tells us the man named Tobit died at 112 yrs old. But if you check the details of his birth (recorded in Tobit 1:4-5) to the Captivity … he had to be over 200 years old.”
“This tells us that Tobit was a young man when Naphtali broke with the house of Jerusalem. This took place when Jeroboam rebelled and established the Kingdom of Israel. Yet this was more than 200 years before the Assyrian captivity of Israel. So Tobias had lived more than 200 years before the story even started, In the final chapter we are told that Tobit was 58 when he lost his sight. He was in Assyria at that time. He then lived another 100 years to 158. That would mean he actually had to be more than 300 years old.”
“In The Book of Tobit 1:6 Tobit says he went to Jerusalem alone. Then in Chapter 5 verse 13 Tobit is talking to Raphael about the kinship he claimed. Tobit says that others went with him to Jerusalem which contradicts his earlier statement that he alone went.”
Also in the Books of Maccabees it is claimed:
“A man, Antiochos Ephiphanes dies 3 different times in 3 different places in the two books of Maccabees.”
I’ve read more arguments a while ago but, can’t find them at the moment. I’ve also heard some more liberal Catholics try to dismiss these by saying that “oh, well, these are parables or allegories and weren’t meant to be taken literally” in much they same way they do the Book of Genesis but, I hoping some more conservative or traditional Catholics can answer these claims, showing that these books are not historically inaccurate.
Thanks.
One site says:
“The writer of Tobit makes Sennacherib the son (1 15), as well as the successor of Enemessar, whereas, according to the Assyrian inscriptions, Sennacherib was the son of Sargon. This is only one of several serious historical difficulties in the narrative of Tobit.”
“In Tobit 14:1, it tells us the man named Tobit died at 112 yrs old. But if you check the details of his birth (recorded in Tobit 1:4-5) to the Captivity … he had to be over 200 years old.”
“This tells us that Tobit was a young man when Naphtali broke with the house of Jerusalem. This took place when Jeroboam rebelled and established the Kingdom of Israel. Yet this was more than 200 years before the Assyrian captivity of Israel. So Tobias had lived more than 200 years before the story even started, In the final chapter we are told that Tobit was 58 when he lost his sight. He was in Assyria at that time. He then lived another 100 years to 158. That would mean he actually had to be more than 300 years old.”
“In The Book of Tobit 1:6 Tobit says he went to Jerusalem alone. Then in Chapter 5 verse 13 Tobit is talking to Raphael about the kinship he claimed. Tobit says that others went with him to Jerusalem which contradicts his earlier statement that he alone went.”
Also in the Books of Maccabees it is claimed:
“A man, Antiochos Ephiphanes dies 3 different times in 3 different places in the two books of Maccabees.”
I’ve read more arguments a while ago but, can’t find them at the moment. I’ve also heard some more liberal Catholics try to dismiss these by saying that “oh, well, these are parables or allegories and weren’t meant to be taken literally” in much they same way they do the Book of Genesis but, I hoping some more conservative or traditional Catholics can answer these claims, showing that these books are not historically inaccurate.
Thanks.