Temom rada je prijevod Knjige Tobijaša što ga je načinio i u svojem kalendaru Danica zagrebečka 1845. objavio Ignac Kristijanović (1796. – 1884.), kajkavski vjerski pisac i važan pučki prosvjetitelj. U radu se argumentira da je priča o Tobijašu izabrana za prvu cjelovitu biblijsku priču objavljenu u Danici zagrebečkoj upravo zato što spaja primjer pobožnosti s dinamičnim i zanimljivim sadržajem. Nadalje se pokazuje koje je traduktološke postupke prevoditelj primijenio ne bi li svoj prijevod približio čitateljima. Zaključuje se da je Kristijanović odabrao upravo tu deuterokanonsku knjigu želeći recipijente svojega prijevoda podučiti i zabaviti te da je uporabom paratekstnih elemenata svoj prijevod oblikovao kao komunikativni. The Book of Tobias is the first complete Bible book published by Ignac Kristijanović in Danica Zagrebečka in 1845. Kristijanović (1796 – 1884) is a Kajkavian religious writer and an important educator. It is a book that is characterized by considerable moralistic passages and dynamic and interesting content. Since the translation had to be literal, Kristijanović shaped his translation as communicative by using paratextual elements. His detailed footnotes have various functions. In cases where reference is made to the appropriate place from the Bible, Kristijanović expands and deepens the exegesis, and for the purpose of what is primary to him - the spread of the Christian faith. However, there are many footnotes in which one can find information and explanations that bring the recipients closer to the culture in which the story of Tobias was created. For this purpose, it provides onomastic and/or etymological explanations of certain words, and in some cases offers equivalents of words that the translator considers less familiar to the recipient or even a paraphrased text of the translation. Kristijanović provides readers with various geographical and zoological data, informs them about the value of means of payment, and also offers cultural explanations to make the story easier to understand. In other notes, he interprets individual passages from the Bible through the prism of Christian morality, and for more ambitious readers, he compares the Latin and Greek versions of the text. The conclusion is that Kristijanović, no matter how literal his translation was, made a considerable effort to bring the world of the Bible closer to the modern reader, thereby anticipating the spirit of communicative Bible translations that were asserted during the 20th century.