The sword of Judith [electronic resource] : Judith studies across the disciplines / Kevin R. Brine, Elena Ciletti and Henrike Lähnemann (eds.).

The Book of Judith tells the story of a fictitious Jewish woman beheading the general of the most powerful imaginable army to free her people. The parabolic story was set as an example of how God will help the righteous. Judith's heroic action not only became a validating charter myth of Judaism its...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Brine, Kevin R. (Editor)
Ciletti, Elena, 1948- (Editor)
Lähnemann, Henrike (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : OpenBook Publishers, 2010.
Subjects:
Judith > (Biblical figure) > Art.
Judith > (Biblical figure) > In literature.
Genre:
Art.
Online Access:
Open Book Publishers: 2010 (Open Book Publishers)
Books at JSTOR: Open Access: 2010 (JSTOR)
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2010 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Open Research Library (ORL): 2010 (Open Research Library)
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks): 2010 (Open Access Publishing in European Networks)
DOAB Directory of Open Access Books: 2010 (Directory of Open Access Books)
Variant Title:
The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introductions. The Judith Project / Kevin R. Brine
  • The Jewish Textual Traditions / Deborah Levine Gera
  • Judith in the Christian Tradition / Elena Ciletti and Henrike Lähnemann
  • Writing Judith. Jewish Textual Traditions. Holofernes's Canopy in the Septuagint / Barbara Schmitz
  • Shorter Medieval Hebrew Tales of Judith / Deborah Levine Gera
  • Food, Sex, and Redemption in Megillat Yehudit (the "Scroll of Judith") / Susan Weingarten
  • Shalom bar Abraham's Book of Judith in Yiddish / Ruth von Bernuth and Michael Terry
  • Christian Textual Tradition. Typology and Agency in Prudentius's Treatment of the Judith Story / Marc Mastrangelo
  • Judith in Late Anglo-Saxon England / Tracey-Anne Cooper
  • The Prayer of Judith in Two Late-Fifteenth-Century French Mystery Plays / John Nassichuk
  • The Example of Judith in Early Modern French Literature / Kathleen M. Llewellyn
  • The Aestheticization of Tyrannicide: Du Bartas's La Judit / Robert Cummings
  • The Cunning of Judith in Late Medieval German Texts / Henrike Lähnemann
  • The Role of Judith in Margaret Fell's Womens Speaking Justified / Janet Bartholomew
  • Staging Judith. Visual Arts. Judith, Jael, and Humilitas in the Speculum Virginum / Elizabeth Bailey
  • Judith between the Private and Public Realms in Renaissance Florence / Roger J. Crum
  • Donatello's Judith as the Emblem of God's Chosen People / Sarah Blake McHam
  • Costuming Judith in Italian Art of the Sixteenth Century / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
  • Judith Imagery as Catholic Orthodoxy in Counter-Reformation Italy / Elena Ciletti
  • Music and Drama. Judith, Music, and Female Patrons in Early Modern Italy / Kelley Harness
  • Judith in Baroque Oratorio / David Marsh
  • Judith in the Italian Unification Process, 1800- 1900 / Paolo Bernardini
  • Marcello and Peri's Giuditta (1860) / Alexandre Lhâa
  • Politics, Biblical Debates, and French Dramatic Music on Judith after 1870 / Jann Pasler
  • Judith and the "Jew-Eaters" in German Volkstheater / Gabrijela Mecky Zaragoza.