Around 1,600 years ago, the Church Father Jerome took a highly creative approach to the translation of the Old Testament Book of Judith: he cut the original text down to about a half, as the ...

The story of Judith and Holofernes is found among the apocryphal works of the Septuagint, the Greek translation of Hebrew Scripture, which formed the basis for the Old Testament. The purpose of ...

Specifically we do not agree on the Old Testament (OT) canon - the list of Books inspired by God. The Catholic OT Canon includes - Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, ...

In Judith 13, Judith is praised in similar language for killing Holofernes: "O daughter, you are blessed by the Most High God above all other women on earth; ... It is commonplace to note the presence ...

"Then Judith, standing by his bed, said in her heart, O Lord God of all power, look at this present upon the work of mine hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem. ... Religion--Old Testament--Holofernes ...

A second, in which Judith wears a widow’s black dress and her old maid stands to her right, is thought to have been painted in about 1607 in Naples. Caravaggio had fled from Rome the previous ...

“The Book of Judith is one of the more recent works of the Old Testament; it was written down for the first time about 100 b. C., in Greek”, says Lydia Lange (32) from the Faculty of Catholic ...