One of the books of the Bible considered apocryphal by Jerome-supporting Protestants and Deuterocanonical by Augustine-supporting Roman Catholics.
A mixture of folklore and romance, written perhaps about 200 B.C. and apparently intended to instruct the Jews in proper attitudes of piety toward God. Tobit himself appears as resolute in suffering and an example to his fellows in matters of charity, justice, morality, and religious obligations. It contains historical as well as geographical mistakes.
(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Old Testament and New Testament Apocrypha by R. K. Harrison, Page 86-87.)
Fragments of it were found with the Dead Sea Scrolls.
(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Texts and Manuscripts of the Old Testament by Mark R. Norton, Page 164)