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The name Judith ( Hebrew: יְהוּדִית, Modern: Yəhūdīt, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏīṯ ), meaning "praised" or "Jewess", [1] is the feminine form of Judah . The surviving manuscripts of Greek translations appear to contain several historical anachronisms, which is why some Protestant scholars now consider the book non-historical.
Feb 1, 2020 · Judith’s heritage. Judith is introduced with a lineage virtually unparalleled in the Biblical text (Judith 8:1–2). A descendant of Simeon, her genealogy includes 16 progenitors and doesn’t even make it back to Simeon! The genealogy, a significant textual marker, establishes her as a formidable literary character.
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Inner-biblical references are noteworthy: as God acted through Moses’ hand (Ex 10:21–22; 14:27–30), so God delivers “by the hand of a female,” Judith. Like Jael, who drove a tent peg through the head of Sisera , Judith kills an enemy general. Like Deborah , Judith
Sep 5, 2023 · 5. Judith acts for the common good. Judith murders Holofernes, the enemy of Israel, a world-class bully who slaughtered his way through Put, Lud, the lands of the Rassisites and the Ishmaelites, the walled towns along Wadi Abron, and Cilicia; he set fire to the tents of the Midiantites and the fields of Damascus (Judith 2:23–27).
Judith is buried in the same cave as her husband, and all Israel mourns her for seven days. As the result of her heroic acts, we are told, no one threatened Israel until a long time after her death (chapter 16 ). The story’s basic ingredients are God, power, sex and death.
Even though Judith scarcely mentions love, it remains for the modern reader a book of faith and hope. 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)
The consensus of scholars is that the Book of Judith was written in the 2nd cent. b.c., prob. as a result of the Maccabean conflict. The persecution of Antiochus Epiphanes would provide a favorable background for this type of lit. Those who argue for this view point out the zeal for orthodox Judaism (a characteristic of the Maccabean period ...
