Hermeneia - A Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible <subTitle>Judith. A commentary on the Book of Judith</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Wills, Lawrence M.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">0:4</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Fortress Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2019</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>498tr.</extent> <extent>Hardcover, illustrations</extent> <extent>25cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Judith tells the story of a beautiful Jewish woman who enters the tent of an invading general, gets him drunk, and then slices off his head, thus saving her village and Jerusalem. This short novella was somewhat surprisingly included in the early Christian versions of the Old Testament and has played an important role in the Western tradition ever since...</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Lawrence M. Wills, Sidnie White Crawford</note> <subject> <topic>Apocryphal books (Old Testament)</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Catholic Bible</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">220.7</classification> <classification authority="ddc">H553-B58</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780800661052</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/13021/jud.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/13021/jud.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2023-1</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071214.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>