"You mock those who mistook books like Tobit as inspired? Kettle black my friend"
Calling out fairy tales for what they are is not mocking. Those apocryphal books have stumbled people and led them away from God and away from truth. Your censure of me by attempting to apply that pot-kettle thing is inappropriate.
"My point was that the author of the gospel recension later named Luke possibly drew from both Tobit and Psalms of Solomon as an explanation for the decades of delay."
Luke was inspired by holy spirit and what he wrote was drawn from truth. He did not draw from the apocryphal books because those books are not a source of inspired truths. They have inspired error, which John and Paul warned us about - not to pay attention to false stories and to test the inspired expressions to see if they originate from God.
The false expectation for an earthly kingdom was a common theme for the Jews back then, so it's not surprising to find it running through the apocryphal books. That it influenced even the early disciples is seen in Peter's words "Lord, are you restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time?" But Jesus made clear "My kingdom is no part of this world."
When theologians look to apocryphal writings like Maccabees or Tobit or other such non-canonical books for so-called "insight" on the scriptures, they are digging in the wrong place. That's why they misunderstand Jesus' words about "the appointed times of the nations". Humans lording it over humans was the motive and origin of that "gentile times" theory. Jesus wasn't talking about some kind of "gentile times" that would end in Jews getting a kingdom on earth. He was talking about the times in our day when the UN and associated nations would trample on all religions for 3 1/2 years - that is the "appointed times of the nations". The prophecies in Daniel and Revelation and the gospels are clear, but those who cling to the "gentile times" theory muddy the waters. They are digging for truth in the wrong place.
Job chapter 28
"There is a place to mine silver
And a place for gold that they refine;
Iron is taken from the ground,
And copper is smelted from rocks.
Man conquers the darkness;
He probes to the limit in the gloom and darkness,
Searching for ore.
He sinks a shaft far from where people reside,
In forgotten places, far from where people walk;
Some men descend and swing suspended.
Food grows on top of the earth;
But below, there is an upheaval as if by fire.
There in the stones is sapphire,
And the dust contains gold.
No bird of prey knows the path to it;
The eye of a black kite has not seen it.
No majestic beasts have trodden on it;
The young lion has not prowled there.
Man strikes the flinty rock with his hand;
He overturns the mountains at their foundation.
He cuts water channels in the rock;
His eyes spot every precious thing.
He dams up the sources of rivers
And brings what was hidden to the light.
But wisdom—where can it be found,
And where is the source of understanding?
No man recognizes its value,
And it cannot be found in the land of the living.
The deep waters say, ‘It is not in me!’
And the sea says, ‘It is not with me!’
It cannot be bought with pure gold;
Nor can silver be weighed out in exchange for it.
It cannot be bought with gold of Oʹphir
Nor with rare onyx and sapphire.
Gold and glass cannot be compared to it;
Nor can a vessel of fine gold be exchanged for it.
Coral and crystal are not worthy of mention,
For a bagful of wisdom is worth more than one full of pearls.
The topaz of Cush cannot be compared to it;
It cannot be purchased even with pure gold.
But from where does wisdom come,
And where is the source of understanding?
It has been hidden from the eyes of every living thing
And concealed from the birds of the heavens.
Destruction and death say, ‘Our ears have heard only a report of it.’
God understands the way to find it;
He alone knows where it resides,
For he looks to the ends of the earth,
And he sees everything under the heavens.
When he set the force of the wind
And measured out the waters,
When he made a regulation for the rain
And a path for the thunderous storm cloud,
Then he saw wisdom and explained it;
He established and tested it.
And he said to man: ‘Look! The fear of Jehovah—that is wisdom,
And to turn away from bad is understanding.’”