Tobit and Judith Book

Marvin Meyer clearly knows this subject matter, and this book dips into many resources that can easily be described as off the beaten path. Some of the sayings included in this collection sound very similar to sayings found in the Bible's New Testament. There are also sayings that certainly sound like something Jesus may have said. Then there are some that, well, makes the reader wonder. Was the person recording this or that saying distracted when Jesus was speaking? Maybe the person writing the saying down had been imbibing in some of the water-to-wine. Perhaps Jesus was just testing the listeners to see what all they would write down? At any rate, the reader could describe some of the sayings as befuddling, confusing or mysterious. A few sayings I read multiple times to no avail. They either made no sense to me, or they sounded out of character for the Jesus most people "know."

At any rate, this is mostly and easy and interesting read.