Tobit
<p><strong>Tobit, </strong>also called The Book Of Tobias, <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apocryphal" class="md-dictionary-link dictionary-open" data-term="apocryphal" id="___id12">apocryphal</a> work (noncanonical for Jews and Protestants) that found its way into the Roman Catholic canon via the <a class="md-crosslink autoxref" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Septuagint">Septuagint</a>. A religious folktale and a Judaicized version of the story of <b>the grateful dead</b>, it relates how <a name="ref124586" id="ref124586" class="idxref"> </a><a class="md-crosslink " href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tobit-biblical-figure">Tobit</a>, a pious Jew exiled to <a class="md-crosslink autoxref" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Nineveh-ancient-city-Iraq">Nineveh</a> in <a class="md-crosslink autoxref" href="https://www.britannica.com/place/Assyria">Assyria</a>, observed the precepts of Hebrew Law by giving alms and by burying the dead. In spite of his good works, Tobit was struck blind. </p>