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- Tobit, written 225-175 BCE. This book tells the story of two Israelite people, a blind man named Tobit living in Nineveh and a woman named Sarah, living in a city called Ecbatana.
- Judith, written about 100 BCE. Judith, a Jewish widow, attracts and seduces an Assyrian general besieging her city. Having ingratiated herself with him, she waits until he is drunk and then decapitates him, saving the capital Jerusalem from total destruction.
- Esther, written around 115 BCE. Although the Hebrew version of Esther is canonical, the Greek translation adds six sections to it. Esther is the story of an Israelite woman who saves her people from an anti-Israelite Persian plot.
- Wisdom of Solomon, written around 50 BCE. This book centers on the importance of Wisdom as related to humans and to God. It may have influenced the famous prologue of the Gospel of John, with wisdom replaced by the “Word.”
Aug 25, 2024 · 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).
- Praefatio Hieronymi in Librum Judith (Jerome’S Preface to The Book of Judith)3
- Patristics and Their Medieval Afterlife
- Early Modern Period
6Apud Hebraeos liber Judith inter apocrypha legitur: cujus auctoritas ad roboranda illa quae in contentionem veniunt, minus idonea judicatur. Chaldaeo tamen sermone conscriptus, inter historias computatur. Sed quia hunc librum Synodus Nicaena in numero sanctarum Scripturarum legitur computasse, acquievi postulationi vestrae, immo exactioni: et sepo...
23The patristic literature informs the medieval presentations of the Book of Judith twofold.11 On the one hand it frames the figure of Judith in certain defined contexts; a significant example is the casting of Judith as pudicitia in the late-fourth-century Psychomachia of Prudentius (cf. Mastrangelo, Chap. 8). Together with Jerome’s definition of ...
37The best-known visual representations of Judith are those of the early modern period, dominated by now legendary conceptions of major figures.24Among the Italians, the list would not fail to contain Donatello, Mantegna, Giorgione, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and both Gentileschis, while north of the Alps, we would find Baldung, Cranach, and Rubens,...
- Elena Ciletti, Henrike Lähnemann
- 2010
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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.
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 ).
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Feb 8, 2024 · For example, she has served as an inspiration for many modern works of fiction, most notably the Book of Judith in the Bible. In popular culture, she has also been featured in computer games, cartoons, and literature.
