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THE BOOK OF JUDITH. The Book of Judith relates the story of God’s deliverance of the Jewish people. This was accomplished “by the hand of a female”—a constant motif (cf. 8:33; 9:9, 10; 12:4; 13:4, 14, 15; 15:10; 16:5) meant to recall the “hand” of God in the Exodus narrative (cf. Ex 15:6). The work may have been written around 100 B ...
The Book of Judith may be divided as follows: I: The Assyrian Threat ( 1:1—3:10) II: Campaign against Bethulia ( 4:1—7:32) III: Deliverance through a Woman ( 8:1—13:20) IV: Triumph of the People of God ( 14:1—16:20) V: Epilogue ( 16:21-25)
Book of Judith. JUDITH, BOOK OF ( יְהוּדִ֔ית, a Jewess; ̓Ιουδίθ, ̓Ιουδήθ ). An apocryphal book bearing the name of its principal character. The name occurs in the Heb. Canon only in Genesis 26:34 as the wife of Esau. 1. Texts and versions. (a) Hebrew.
Sep 5, 2023 · The Book of Judith —considered canonical by Roman Catholics, Apocrypha Literature by Protestants, and non-canon by Jews—tells the story of the ignominious defeat of the Assyrians, an army bent on world domination, by the hand of a Hebrew woman (Judith 13:14).
Contents. Home Philosophy & Religion Scriptures. Judith. The book of Judith is similar to the biblical Book of Esther in that it also describes how a woman saved her people from impending massacre by her cunning and daring.
Composed: c.250 – c.50 BCE. The Book of Judith is an apocryphal work that tells of a heroic woman who seduces and kills an enemy general, saving Israel from oppression. The book was not mentioned by any Jewish sources until the medieval period, when Judith’s character became a subject of discussion in legal works, talmudic commentaries, and ...
Jun 27, 2017 · DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195393361-0237. Introduction. Judith is one of the books of the Apocrypha, the Jewish texts that were included in the Catholic and Orthodox Old Testaments (including Armenian, Syrian, and Ethiopian Orthodox Bibles), but not in the Protestant Old Testament or Jewish scriptures.
