The Book of Tobit, a work of Second Temple Jewish literature, is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. It dates to the 3rd or early 2nd century BCE. It emphasizes God’s testing of the faithf
Leaf from a vellum manuscript of Tobit, c. 1240
Rembrandt: Tobit Accusing Anna of Stealing the Kid (1626)
Illumination with Tobit, Tobias, and the archangel Raphael in an initial O. (14th century AD)
Anna and the Blind Tobit, Rembrandt and Dou (1630)
Asmodeus or Ashmedai is a king of demons in the legends of Solomon and the constructing of Solomon's Temple.He is associated with lust.
Book of Tobit
…ten silver talents once deposited in Rhages in Media, and on his journey—guided by the angel Raphael—he meets Sarah. Sarah is afflicted by the demon Asmodeus, who slays her prospective husbands, but with Raphael’s help the demon is exorcised and she marries Tobias. They return together to Nineveh, where…
Asmodeus as depicted in Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal
Solomon and the Queen of Sheba informed by an angel about their child, possibly an allusion to Nizami's Tale of the Princess of the Yellow-Gold Pavilion. A red demon enslaved in the garden, presumably Asmodeus, is forced to work.
Angels fighting to hold a demonic dragon in chains. On the left side of the picture, the head of Asmodeus lurks from a crag of the demonic manifestation. The image conveys the battle between the demonic passions and the rational intellect in the form of the angels, supposedly happening inside a human's heart. Siyah Qalam (1478)