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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
- Judith (given name) - Wikipedia
Judith is a feminine given name derived from the Hebrew name Yəhūdīt (יְהוּדִית), meaning "praised" and also more literally "Woman of Judea " It is the feminine form of Judah
- Judith, THE BOOK OF JUDITH | USCCB
The Council of Trent (1546) included Judith in the canon; thus it is one of the seven deuterocanonical books 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
- The Book of Judith - Bible Gateway
Like Sarah, the mother of Israel’s future (Gn 17:6), Judith’s beauty deceives foreigners, with the result that blessings redound to Israel (Gn 12:11–20) Her Hebrew name means “Jewish woman ” Her exploits captured the imagination of liturgists, artists, and writers through the centuries
- Judith: A Remarkable Heroine - Biblical Archaeology Society
Read the second half of Robin Gallaher Branch’s study of Judith, in which she analyzes Judith’s extraordinary courage, Judith and her maid, her heritage and theology and her roles as prophetess and countrywoman
- Biblical literature - Judith, Apocrypha, Heroine | Britannica
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
- Book of Judith | Apocrypha, Holofernes Siege of Bethulia | Britannica
At the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia, a general named Achior warned Holofernes of the danger of attacking the Jews A beautiful Jewish widow named Judith left the besieged city in pretended flight and foretold to Holofernes that he would be victorious
- Meaning, origin and history of the name Judith
From the Hebrew name יְהוּדִית (Yehuḏiṯ) meaning "Jewish woman", feminine of יְהוּדִי (yehuḏi), ultimately referring to a person from the tribe of Judah In the Old Testament Judith is one of the Hittite wives of Esau This is also the name of the main character of the apocryphal Book of Judith
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