Category:Book of Judith (text)

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The Book of Judith is a Second Temple Jewish document, included in the Septuagint, the Vulgate as well as in the canons of Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox Christian Bible, or among the Protestant OT Apocrypha.

Overview

The Book of Judith in Scholarship

Evans (1939) introduced the book of Judith as a work of fiction, without reference to any historical event. The book was written "in Hebrew... about 100 BCE... by one of the first of the Pharisees." The purpose was "to give courage to the Jews in a time of danger" (p.27).

Craven (1983) defended the literary unity and harmony of the work, while reaching a skeptical conclusion about its ideology--"There is in fact no reason to believe that either a Sadducee, a Zealot, an Essene, or a Pharisee authored the story" (p.121).

The Book of Judith in literature & the Arts

• See Judith

Related categories

• Judith (subject) / Salome Alexandra / Tigranes the Great

External links

• Wikipedia -- Early Jewish Writings

Select Bibliography (articles)

• / [[]] / In: The Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992 Freedman), dictionary,

• Judith, Book of / Betsy Halpern-Amaru / In: The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism (2010 Collins / Harlow), edited volume, 855-857