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  2. Book of Judith - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible but excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to the apocrypha. It tells of a Jewish widow, Judith, who uses her beauty and charm to kill an Assyrian general who has besieged her ...

  3. Old Testament - Wikipedia

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    The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites. [1]

  4. Judith Slaying Holofernes (Artemisia Gentileschi, Naples)

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    The episode of Judith beheading Holofernes is from a deuterocanonical book of the Bible.The episode is from the apocryphal Book of Judith in the Old Testament, which recounts the assassination of the Assyrian general Holofernes by the Israelite heroine Judith.

  5. Names for Jewish and Christian holy books - Wikipedia

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    The Protestant Old Testament is largely identical to what Jews call the Bible; the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Old Testament (held to by some Protestants as well) is based on the prevailing first century Greek translation of the Jewish Bible, the Septuagint. The Bible as used by Christianity consists of two parts: The Old Testament, largely ...

  6. Acre Bible - Wikipedia

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    The Acre Bible is a partial Old French version of the Old Testament, containing both new and revised translations of 15 canonical and 4 deuterocanonical books, plus a prologue and glosses. The books are Genesis , Exodus , Leviticus , Numbers , Deuteronomy , Joshua , Judges , 1 and 2 Samuel , 1 and 2 Kings , Judith , Esther , Job , Tobit ...

  7. Judith beheading Holofernes - Wikipedia

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    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).

  8. Judith Light Says She Once Considered Adoption but Knew Her ...

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    Judith Light is opening up about her decision to not have kids. Speaking to PEOPLE about her role in the Apple TV+ supernatural drama Before, the actress, 75, commented on her relationship with ...

  9. Judith (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Bible. Book of Judith, a deuterocanonical book of the Old Testament Judith (homily), an Old English homily written by Aelfric of Eynsham around 1000; Art