Book of Judith
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Book of Judith — Book of Judith † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Book of Judith HISTORY Nabuchodonosor, King of Nineveh, sends his general Holofernes to subdue the Jews. The latter besieges them in Bethulia, a city on the southern verge of the Plain of… … Catholic encyclopedia
Book of Judith — The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded by Jews and Protestants. It has been said that the book contains numerous… … Wikipedia
Judith (disambiguation) — Judith may refer to:In names: * Judith (name), female given nameIn people: * Judith (Genesis), a character in the Book of Genesis * Judith, daughter of Welf, a Frankish queen * Judith of Friuli, daughter of Evrard of Friuli * Judith of Flanders,… … Wikipedia
Judith (poem) — Judith is an Old English poetic Biblical paraphrase retelling the story of the beheading of Holofernes, an Assyrian military leader, by the eponymous heroine, as recorded in the deuterocanonical Book of Judith.History/IncompletenessThe manuscript … Wikipedia
Judith (homily) — Judith is a homily written by abbot Aelfric of Eynsham around the year 1000. It is extant in two manuscripts, a fairly complete version being found in Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS 303, and fragments in British Library MS Cotton Otho… … Wikipedia
Judith — f Biblical name, meaning ‘Jewess’ or ‘woman from Judea’, borne by a Jewish heroine whose story is recorded in the Book of Judith in the Apocrypha. Judith is portrayed as a beautiful widow who delivers her people from the invading Assyrians by… … First names dictionary
Judith — (ca. 950) Judith is an OLD ENGLISH poem retelling the story of the apocryphal Old Testament book of Judith as written in the Vulgate Bible. The anonymous poet applies the heroic style and attitudes of Anglo Saxon heroic poetry to the story of… … Encyclopedia of medieval literature
Judith and Holofernes — This article discusses the development of the iconography of this scene in Western sculpture and painting. For details of the account in the Book of Judith, see Holofernes and Book of Judith, and for its depiction in other media see Judith in… … Wikipedia
Judith — /jooh dith/, n. 1. a devoutly religious woman of the ancient Jews who saved her town from conquest by entering the camp of the besieging Assyrian army and cutting off the head of its commander, Holofernes, while he slept. 2. a book of the… … Universalium
Judith (name) — Infobox Given Name Revised name = Judith imagesize=200px caption=Judith with the head of Holofernes from the Book of Judith, depicted in this painting by Gustav Klimpt. pronunciation= gender = Female meaning = He will be praised or Woman of Judea … Wikipedia
