Judith (The Jerusalem Bible): Book Discussion

(Book Review--The Bible, Religion, The Classics, Blogging the Canon) 

Part of my project to read through the Bible.  

(As noted in the video, because this book is not part of the Protestant Bible, this is my first time reading through this book.  So, according to my new rules, I'm doing this as a video only review.) 

Judith (The Jerusalem Bible): Book Discussion

I explain about my background with the Bible and my reasons for doing this read-through in this blog post here: https://joelswagman.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-book-of-genesis-from-jerusalem-bible.html

Links to stuff mentioned:

My review of Reading the Old Testament: An Introduction by Lawrence Boadt:  https://youtu.be/Kzy3kstCJ_o

Wikipedia Entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Judith

See specifically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Judith#In_music_and_theatre for the quote I half remembered: 

In 1840, Friedrich Hebbel's play Judith was performed in Berlin. He deliberately departs from the biblical text:

I have no use for the biblical Judith. There, Judith is a widow who lures Holofernes into her web with wiles, when she has his head in her bag she sings and jubilates with all of Israel for three months. That is mean, such a nature is not worthy of her success [...]. My Judith is paralyzed by her deed, frozen by the thought that she might give birth to Holofernes' son; she knows that she has passed her boundaries, that she has, at the very least, done the right thing for the wrong reasons.^[110]