Book of Tobit Summary: God Sees in the Exile. Tobit is the story of a righteous man blinded in exile, a woman oppressed by grief, and a hidden angel on a mission from God. Set in the Assyrian diaspora after the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel, it follows two parallel paths of suffering that divinely intersect through healing, deliverance, and restoration.

The Apocrypha: Lost Books or Forgotten Scripture? The word “Apocrypha” means hidden in Greek. But in this context, it refers to a group of ancient Jewish writings included in the Greek Old Testament—the Septuagint (LXX)—but later excluded from the Hebrew Masoretic Text. These books are also known as the Deuterocanonical Books (literally, “second canon”), especially in Catholic and Orthodox circles, where they are considered fully inspired Scripture.