(The Jewish heroine who saves the city of Bethulia in the Book of Judith)

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• Judith — noun Etymology: Late Latin, from Greek Ioudith, from Hebrew Yĕhūdhīth Date: before 12th century 1. the Jewish heroine who saves the city of Bethulia in the book of Judith 2. a book of Scripture included in the Roman Catholic canon of the Old… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Judith — (ca. 950)    Judith is an OLD ENGLISH poem retelling the story of the apocryphal Old Testament book of Judith as written in the Vulgate Bible. The anonymous poet applies the heroic style and attitudes of Anglo Saxon heroic poetry to the story of… …   Encyclopedia of medieval literature