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Apr 17, 2023 · Judith recounts the mission of King Nebuchadnezzar to conquer various peoples and their lands. Judea is one such target, and the small town of Bethulia is compelled to prepare for a battle with the forces of the King’s army, led by the general Holofernes.
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 ...
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.
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 ).
Agafia Svyatoslavna of Rus (between 1190 and 1195 – after 2 June 1248) was Princess of Masovia by her marriage to Duke Konrad I. She was a member of the Olgovichi clan.
An Apocryphal book in sixteen chapters. The book receives its title from the name of its principal character, Judith (= "Jewess"; in the Greek transliteration, Ἰουδείθ), a name found also in Gen. xxvi. 34 (comp. the corresponding masculine proper name in Jer. xxxvi. 14, 21, 23).
The Book of Judith. After the story of a family delineated in the Book of Tobit, the Bible gives us a national drama in two parts. In the first, the fearsome armada of Holofernes imposes its domination over all peoples; the little Israelite nation is threatened and in danger of perishing.
