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Judith 3:7
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Exodus 34:13
Judith 4:4
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Genesis 14:18
Judith 4:8
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2 Maccabees 11:27
Judith 4:13
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Exodus 2:24
Judith 4:15
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Galatians 6:10
Judith 5:8
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Jubilees 12:1
Judith 5:8
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Jubilees 12:7
Judith 5:10
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Acts 7:11
Judith 7:27
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Exodus 14:12
Judith 8:26
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1 Clement 31:2
Judith 8:26
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Pseudo Philo Biblical Antiquities 32:2
Judith 8:32
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1 Clement 55:4
Judith 9:5
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1 Enoch 9:11
Judith 9:7
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LXX Exodus 15:3
Judith 11:19
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Matthew 9:36
Judith 11:20
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2 Chronicles 18:16
Judith 12:16
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Ambrose On the Duty of the Clergy 3.13
Judith 13:1
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Exodus 12:29
Judith 13:7
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Ambrose On the Duty of the Clergy 3.13
Judith 13:18
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Luke 1:42
Judith 13:18
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Genesis 14:19
Judith 14:10
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Deuteronomy 23:4
Judith 14:19
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Exodus 12:30
Judith 15:6
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Exodus 12:36
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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Judges 5:5
Judith 16:15
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1 Enoch 1:6
Judith 16:17
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Mark 9:46
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
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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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