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Judith of Bethulia. Judith of Bethulia is an American film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall, and produced and directed by D. W. Griffith, based on the play "Judith and the Holofernes" (1896) by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, which itself was an adaptation of the Book of Judith.
The Siege of Bethulia by Jacob van Swanenburg, c. 1615. Bethulia (Greek: Βαιτυλούᾳ, Baituloua; Hebrew: בתוליה) is a biblical "city whose deliverance by Judith, when besieged by Holofernes, forms the subject of the Book of Judith." [1]
The American playwright Thomas Bailey Aldrich's Judith of Bethulia was first performed in New York, 1905, and was the basis for the 1914 production Judith of Bethulia by director D. W. Griffith. A full hour in length, it was one of the earliest feature films made in the United States.
Ælfric’s Judith is quite like that of the poem; furthermore, the characters seem to have served the same purpose—to stand as an example to the people in a time of war. Judith's city of Bethulia was being plundered by Assyrians. Holofernes was an Assyrian general and king, often drunk and constantly monstrous.
Judith is shown clad in rich apparel, or, as the sacred text describes, "in her garments of gladness", bravely decked with bracelets and chains and ornaments, returning from the camp of the Assyrians across the mountains to Bethulia, strong in the might of the great deliverance that she has wrought for Israel. [4]
Early Renaissance images of Judith tend to depict her as fully dressed and desexualized; besides Donatello's sculpture, this is the Judith seen in Sandro Botticelli's The Return of Judith to Bethulia (1470–1472), Andrea Mantegna's Judith and Holofernes (1495, with a detached head), and in the corner of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel (1508–1512).
Judith, a beautiful and pious widow of the Tribe of Simeon, executes a plan to deliver Bethulia from the Assyrian general Holofernes.Wearing her rich attire, and accompanied by her maid, who carries a bag of provisions, she goes to the hostile camp, where she is at once conducted to the general, whose suspicions are disarmed by the tales she invents.
Judith at the Gates of Bethulia (1847) by Jules-Claude Ziegler. Judith at the Gates of Bethulia is an 1847 painting by French artist Jules-Claude Ziegler, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. It shows Judith holding the head of Holofernes. [1] [2]