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, ...

The Old Testament in Catholic Bibles contains seven more books than are found in Protestant Bibles ... Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus (or, Sirach), ...

“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 ...