BEL and the Dragon (the history of); an apocryphal, and uncanonical, book of Scripture. It was always rejected by the Jewish church, and is extant neither in the Hebrew nor the Chaldee language, nor is there any proof that it ever was so. St. Jerom gives it no better title than the Fable of Bel and the Dragon. It is however permitted to be read, as well as the other apocryphal writings, for the instruction and improvement of manners.