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The 3rd season (1998–99) of Judge Judy was the show's first season as the highest-rated program in daytime television, having surpassed the highly rated Jerry Springer Show and even then daytime powerhouse The Oprah Winfrey Show for the first time [144] (King World Productions which launched Oprah was folded into CBS Television Distribution ...
Judge Judy stands next to a portrait of herself (2005) A little over a year after the 60 Minutes special, Sheindlin accepted an offer in 1995 to preside in a new reality courtroom series, featuring "real cases with real rulings." [17] Her syndicated court show Judge Judy debuted on September 16, 1996 and ran for 25 seasons until July 23, 2021. [18]
The name Judith (Hebrew: יְהוּדִית, Modern: Yəhūdīt, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏīṯ), meaning "praised" or "Jewess", [1] is the feminine form of Judah. The surviving manuscripts of Greek translations appear to contain several historical anachronisms, which is why some Protestant scholars now consider the book ahistorical.
Judith is a feminine given name derived from the Hebrew name Yəhūdīt (יְהוּדִית), meaning "praised" and also more literally "Woman of Judea". It is the feminine form of Judah. Judith appeared in the Hebrew Bible as one of Esau's wives, while the deuterocanonical Book of Judith tells of a different Judith. [2]
Judges follows the Book of Joshua and opens with a reference to Joshua's death. [10] The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges suggests that "the death of Joshua may be regarded as marking the division between the period of conquest and the period of occupation", the latter being the focus of the Book of Judges. [11]
The biblical text does not generally describe these leaders as "a judge", but says that they "judged Israel", using the verb שָׁפַט (š-f-t). [ 15 ] [ page needed ] Thus, Othniel "judged Israel forty years" ( Judges 3 :11), Tola "judged Israel twenty-three years" ( Judges 10 :2), and Jair judged Israel twenty-two years ( Judges 10 :3).
A literal translation of the references to Jude in these passages gives "Jude of James" (Ancient Greek: Ἰούδας Ἰακώβου, romanized: Ioudas Iakōbou), as in Young's Literal Translation of the Bible, but scholars differ on whether this means "Jude, brother of James" or "Jude, son of James".
Sisera (Hebrew: סִיסְרָא Sīsərāʾ ) was commander of the Canaanite army of King Jabin of Hazor, who is mentioned in Judges 4–5 of the Hebrew Bible.After being defeated by the forces of the Israelite tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali under the command of Barak and Deborah, Sisera was killed by Jael, who hammered a tent peg into his temple while he slept.