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TimelineContentsSection VII. High Hellenistic and Maccabean Period · c. 200-100 BCE

Judith

16 chapters · 339 verses · 10,933 words

A pious widow talks her way into the enemy camp and beheads the general Holofernes in his tent. Deliberately unhistorical in its setting, which is signaled from the opening verse. In Catholic and Orthodox Bibles; not in Jewish or Protestant canons.

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