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4 articles found for “Judith”

• Book of Judith

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  The Book of Judith is a sixteen-chapter book that tells how the widow Judith saved Israel by killing the enemy general Holofernes. The Catholic and Orthodox churches include it in the Old Testament, while Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha, outside the canon.

• Holofernes

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  Holofernes is a character in the apocryphal Book of Judith who serves as commander in chief of King Nebuchadnezzar's army. He besieged Bethulia and was beheaded by the widow Judith.

• Deuterocanonical Books

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  The deuterocanonical books are books such as Tobit, Judith, and Maccabees that the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church include in the Old Testament but that are absent from the Hebrew Bible and the Protestant Old Testament. Protestants commonly call them the Apocrypha.

• Basemath

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  Basemath is a wife of Esau in the Book of Genesis who, through her son Reuel, became an ancestor of the chiefs of Edom. Genesis 26 and Genesis 36 give differing accounts of her origin. The First Book of Kings mentions a daughter of Solomon who bore the same name.