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The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies across the Disciplines (2010) is a volume edited by Kevin R. Brine, Elena Ciletti, and Henrike Lähnemann.

Abstract

"The Book of Judith tells the story of a fictitious Jewish woman beheading the general of the most powerful imaginable army to free her people. The parabolic story was set as an example of how God will help the righteous. Judith's heroic action not only became a validating charter myth of Judaism itself but has also been appropriated by many Christian and secular groupings, and has been an inspiration for numerous literary texts and works of art. It continues to exercise its power over artists, authors and academics and is becoming a major field of research in its own right. The Sword of Judith is the first multidisciplinary collection of essays to discuss representations of Judith throughout the centuries. It transforms our understanding across a wide range of disciplines. The collection includes new archival source studies, the translation of unpublished manuscripts, the translation of texts unavailable in English, and Judith images and music."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Cambridge: OpenBook, 2010.

Contents

Introductions

• 1. Kevin R. Brine The Judith Project
• 2. Deborah Levine Gera The Jewish Textual Traditions
• 3. Elena Ciletti and Henrike Lähnemann Judith in the Christian Tradition

1. Writing Judith

1.1 Jewish Textual Traditions

• 4. Barbara Schmitz Holofernes's Canopy in the Septuagint
• 5. Deborah Levine Gera Shorter Medieval Hebrew Tales of Judith
• 6. Susan Weingarten Food, Sex, and Redemption in Megillat Yehudit (the "Scroll of Judith")
• 7. Ruth von Bernuth and Michael Terry Shalom bar Abraham's Book of Judith in Yiddish

1.2 Christian Textual Tradition

• 8. Marc Mastrangelo Typology and Agency in Prudentius's Treatment of the Judith Story
• 9. Tracey-Anne Cooper Judith in Late Anglo-Saxon England
• 10. John Nassichuk The Prayer of Judith in Two Late-Fifteenth-Century French Mystery Plays
• 11. Kathleen M. Llewellyn The Example of Judith in Early Modern French Literature
• 12. Robert Cummings The Aestheticization of Tyrannicide: Du Bartas's La Judit
• 13. Henrike Lähnemann The Cunning of Judith in Late Medieval German Texts
• 14. Janet Bartholomew The Role of Judith in Margaret Fell's Womens Speaking Justified

2. Staging Judith

2.1 Visual Arts

• 15. Elizabeth Bailey Judith, Jael, and Humilitas in the Speculum Virginum
• 16. Roger J. Crum Judith between the Private and Public Realms in Renaissance Florence
• 17. Sarah Blake McHam Donatello's Judith as the Emblem of God's Chosen People
• 18. Diane Apostolos-Cappadona Costuming Judith in Italian Art of the Sixteenth Century
• 19. Elena Ciletti Judith Imagery as Catholic Orthodoxy in Counter-Reformation Italy

2.2 Music and Drama

• 20. Kelley Harness Judith, Music, and Female Patrons in Early Modern Italy
• 21. David Marsh Judith in Baroque Oratorio
• 22. Paolo Bernardini Judith in the Italian Unification Process, 1800-1900
• 23. Alexandre Lhâa Marcello and Peri's Giuditta (1860)
• 24. Jann Pasler Politics, Biblical Debates, and French Dramatic Music on Judith after 1870
• 25. Gabrijela Mecky Zaragoza Judith and the "Jew-Eaters" in German Volkstheater

External links

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