Judith


This is the Judith from Judith Beheading Holofernes of Artemisia Gentileschi / Caravaggio fame. (Judith 13:7-10)

One of the books of the Bible considered apocryphal by Jerome-supporting Protestants and Deuterocanonical by Augustine-supporting Roman Catholics.

Narrates the way in which an enterprising Jewish woman kills an enemy leader and saves her people. The narrative, however, seems to have no basis in historical fact and is also marked by chronological and other errors.

(The Origin of the Bible: Newly Updated by F. F. Bruce, J. I. Packer, Philip W. Comfort, and Carl F. H. Henry, 2020. Old Testament and New Testament Apocrypha by R. K. Harrison, Page 87.)