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    Book of Judith - Wikipedia

    • The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible but excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to the apocrypha. It tells of a Jewish widow, Judith, who uses her beauty and charm to kill an Assyrian general who has besieged her city, Bethulia. Wit… See more

    Historical context

    It is not clear whether the Book of Judith was originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek, as the oldest … See more

    Contents

    The story revolves around Judith, a daring and beautiful widow, who is upset with her Judean countrymen for not trusting God to deliver them from their foreign conquerors. She goes with her loyal maid to the camp of the Assyria… See more

    GenesisBereshit
    ExodusShemot
    LeviticusWayiqra
    NumbersBemidbar
    Historicity of Judith

    Today, it is generally accepted that the Book of Judith's historicity is dubious. The fictional nature "is evident from its blending of history and fiction, beginning in the very first verse, and is too prevalent thereafter to be consider… See more

    Place names specific to the Book of Judith

    Whilst a number of the places referred to are familiar biblical or modern place names, there are others which are considered fictional or whose location is not otherwise known. Theologians Antoine Augustin Calmet… See more

    Later artistic renditions

    The character of Judith is larger than life, and she has won a place in Jewish and Christian lore, art, poetry and drama. The etymology of her name meaning "woman of Judea", suggests that she represents the heroic spiri… See more

    Further reading

    • Cheyne, Thomas Kelly; Black, John Sutherland, eds. (1901). "Esora". Encyclopaedia Biblica. Vol. II E to K. New York: Macmillan.
    • Friedrich Justus Knecht (1910). "The Heroic Judith" . A Practical Commenta… See more

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