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Judith 16:2
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Psalm 46:9
Judith 16:2
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LXX Exodus 15:3
Judith 16:4
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Psalm 137:9
Judith 16:15
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1 Enoch 1:6
Judith 16:15
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Judges 5:5
Judith 16:17
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Isaiah 66:24
Judith 16:17
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Matthew 24:51
Judith 16:17
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Sirach 7:17
Judith 16:17
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Mark 9:46
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Summary
Date: 150-100 B.C.E.
The book of Judith is a parody of foreign imperial rulers, written in the wake of the Maccabean Revolt at the end of the second or beginning of the first century BCE. It features a pious Jewish woman who risks her virtue to save her people. Judith violates decorum: she chides the village elders; she lies and deceives; she makes suggestive advances to a foreign general, and enters his intimate quarters to chop off his head. She oversees her people’s charge against the Assyrians and becomes a hero.
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