Endnote 15 – Tobit

A. Neubauer’s Aramaic ms. and the Münster text or HM (cf. also Shabbat 110a) declare that the heart and liver are to be burned under Sarah’s clothes; see Zimmermann, Book of Tobit, p. 85. This reading strengthens the connections among the organs, the heat, and fertility/insemination; see Wikgren, “Tobit,” p. 659. The Oneirocritica of Artemidorus (1.44) connects the heart with marriage and the liver with the production of male/female relationships, in The Interpretation of Dreams, transl. and commentary by Robert J. White (Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Press, 1975), p. 38. I thank Derek Krueger for this reference.