Judith <subTitle>A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Moore, Carey A.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <namePart type="date">1930-</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">Translator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">4:3</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Doubleday</publisher> <dateIssued>1985</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>286tr.</extent> <extent>hardcover, illustrations</extent> <extent>24cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Judith is Volume 40 in the acclaimed Anchor Bible series of new book-by-book translations of the Old and New Testaments and Apocrypha. In the Apocrypha, Judith is the saint who murdered for her people. She offered herself to Holofernes, the Assyrian general sent by Nebuchadnezzar to destroy the Israelites... In his illuminating new translation and commentary, Carey A. Moore considers the historicity of the story and explores the author's true intent: Was it to describe actual events or to compose a fictitious story of other purposes? ...</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Carey A. Moore</note> <subject> <topic>Apocryphal books (Old Testament) -- Criticism, interpretation, etc</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">229.24077</classification> <classification authority="ddc">M821-C27</classification> <identifier type="isbn">0385144245</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14647/j.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14647/j.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071405.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>