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Book of Judith
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Noun1.Book of Judith - an Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people
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Apocrypha - 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status
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THE Book of Judith tells of an Israelite town besieged by the Assyrian army who cut off the town's water supply.
THOUGHT for the DAY by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Their topics include establishing an atmosphere of perpetuity in Jerusalemite Yehud, the purpose of historical discourse in the Book of Judith, and lessons from the study of natural history for reconstructing the history of the earliest Christianity.
The function of ancient historiography in biblical and cognate studies by Reference & Research Book News
In the Book of Judith, Judith saves the Israelites by visiting the enemy Holofernes in his tent and beheading him.
Dazzling demons by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
 
 
 
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