Book of Judith
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title:
Book of Judith
text:
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. It tells of a Jewish widow, Judith, who uses her beauty and charm to kill an Assyrian general who has besieged her city, Bethulia. With this act, she saves nearby Jerusalem from total destruction. The name Judith, meaning "praised" or "Jewess", is the feminine form of Ju
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description:
Deuterocanonical (apocryphal) book
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Judith
date created:
2004-01-04T18:13:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T22:25:51Z
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