ABSTRACT
The Book of Tobit tells the story of a pious and well-to-do Naphtalite who was exiled in Nineveh. There he experienced blindness and poverty as the direct result of his performing one of his most characteristic good deeds: burying the dead. Thanks to the courageous efforts of his son Tobiah, who was assisted by the angel Raphael, Tobit not only recovered his sight and fortune but also gained a virtuous daughter-in-law, Sarah, a wealthy Ecbatanian relative from whom Tobiah exorcized the demon Asmodeus. (Asmodeus had claimed the life of each of her seven previous husbands on their wedding night.)
