Tobit

This feels like a throwback to some of the more narrative stuff in Exodus, in particular all that business involving a technicolour dreamcoat. There’s a proper story with murder, marriage and the gall bladder of a fish all featuring.

With some notable exceptions there’s even some usable moral teaching here. Chapter 4 is all great stuff about giving wealth to the needy according to your means and I liked the pithy “they that sin are enemies to their own life” (12:10).

If this was in the OT, I reckon it would be a staple of school assemblies everywhere.