Book of Tobit and Mohammed
by Damien F. Mackey How could Mohammed have encountered a young Christian from Nineveh when that city had been destroyed some 1200 years before (c. 612 BC), and so completely that no one knew where it was, until, another 1200 years (C19th AD) when modern archaeologists dug it up? Introduction The Book of Tobit revolutionises ancient history . Although I came to the conclusion independently of the Book of Tobit that the Assyrian king, Sargon II, was the same ruler as his supposed son-successor, Sennacherib, one finds in the Book of Tobit (Chapter 1), the Assyrian sequence of “Shalmaneser”; “Sennacherib”; and “Esarhaddon”, with no mention whatsoever of Sargon. The Book of Tobit revolutionises ancient geography . If only I had taken more notice of the geography of the Book of Tobit, according to which one travels from Nineveh, to the Tigris River, to Charan (Haran) “midway”...