Dict: smith - JUDITH

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JUDITH - J>@ - (Jewess , or praised). The daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and wife of Esau. kjv@Genesis:26:34) (B.C. 1797.) The heroine of the apocryphal book which bears her name, who appears as an ideal type of piety, Judith kjv@8:6, beauty, ch. 11:21, courage and chastity. ch. 16:22 ff.

JUDITH, THE BOOK OF - J>@ - one of the books of the Apocrypha, belongs to the earliest specimens of historical fiction. As to its authorship it belongs to the Maccabean period, B.C. 175-135, which it reflects not only in its general spirit, but even in its smaller traits.