Taking Sides: Tobias v. Tobit

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In an earlier thread, someone claimed that the reason you don't get loads of people called Tobit unlike other Bible names is that The Book of Tobit is considered apocryphal by the kind of people who give their children Old Testament names.

Yet, there are plenty of people in the world called Tobias. This is the name of Tobit's dad in The Book of Tobit. As far as I know this name occurs nowhere else in the Bible.

So why are there many people named Tobias, and none called Tobit?

― DV, Saturday, 22 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Praise Tobit.

― DV, Saturday, 22 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cause their aint no fish you can be confused with by Tobias.

Tobits on the otherhand have to watch out for those nets thats are too small. hyuck hyuck.

― Mr Noodles, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

because tobias is the best name ever, you foolish man. which is why i go by toby. also: tobias is tobit's son, not dad. not that i've ever read the book, but whateva.

― toby, Sunday, 23 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tobit is the best name ever.

Praise Tobit.

― DV, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If this helps any, today while filing I discovered a Tobit living in Decatur, Illinois.

― youn, Monday, 24 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

tobias would sound rather majestic and wistful if said with the voice of patrick stewart. i lack the gravitas to pull of tobias, as i am cursed with a thin beard, and shall ever think of myself as a tobit.

― another james, Tuesday, 25 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Interestingly, the latest issue of popular comic 'Promethea' mentions The Book of Tobit. Alan Moore describes it as being part of the biblical apocrypha to kind of imply it's chuckful of esoteric wisdom rather than just some stupid adventure story.

Praise Tobit.

― DV, Friday, 28 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There are at least five Tobits living in the UK.

― N., Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"In a hole in the ground there lived a Tobit"

― mark s, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ARGH, you beat me to it, you bastard!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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