Judith, Book of

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• JUDITH, BOOK OF — JUDITH, BOOK OF, a historical narrative dating from Second Temple times, included by the Septuagint and the canon of the Catholic and Greek churches in the Bible and by the Protestants in the Apocrypha. The story is as follows: Nebuchadnezzar,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Judith, Book of — ▪ biblical literature       apocryphal work excluded from the Hebrew and Protestant biblical canons but included in the Septuagint (Greek version of the Hebrew Bible) and accepted in the Roman canon.       The book relates that Nebuchadrezzar… …   Universalium

• 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

• Judith Quiney — Judith Shakespeare redirects here. For Virginia Woolf s fictional Judith, see A Room of One s Own Judith Quiney ( née Shakespeare) (baptised 2 February 1585 ndash; buried 9 February 1662) was the daughter of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway …   Wikipedia

• Judith Regan — (born 17 August 1953 in Massachusetts) is an American editor and book publisher, who became famous for pioneering the publishing of celebrity autobiographies.Early lifeRegan grew up on Long Island, and graduated from Bay Shore High School in 1971 …   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 Sargent Murray — (1751 1820) was an early American advocate for women s rights, an essayist, playwright, poet, and letter writer. She was one of the first American proponents of the idea of the equality of the sexes that women, like men, had the capability of… …   Wikipedia

• Judith Butler — Butler during a lecture at the University of Hamburg. April 2007 Full name Judith Butler Born February 24, 1956 (1956 02 24) (age 55) Clevelan …   Wikipedia

• Judith Wright — Judith Arundell Wright (31 May 1915 mdash;26 June 2000) was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. [ [http://litweb.net/biography/18/Judith Wright.html Judith Wright Biography and Bibliography at… …   Wikipedia