Book of Judith

Japanese: ユディト書 - ユディトしょ（英語表記）Book of Judith

A book in the Apocrypha of the Old Testament. It is a fictional war story. Holofernes, a general of the Assyrian king Nebuchadnezzar, besieged the Jewish town of Bethulia (a fictional town?) during his western campaign. Just before the town fell, a devout widow named Judith stood up among the panicked citizens, and used her beauty to deceive Holofernes, getting him drunk and decapitating him, thus defeating the Assyrian army and saving her town and her homeland. Judith is the feminine form of "Jew." A work written in the 2nd or 1st century BCE that aimed to raise national consciousness.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

旧約聖書外典中の一書。内容は架空の戦記物語。アッシリア王ネブカドネザルの将軍ホロフェルネスHolofernesは，西方遠征中にユダヤ人の町ベトゥリア(架空の町？)を包囲した。陥落寸前，動揺する市民たちの中で，信仰深い寡婦ユディトが敢然と立ち上がり，敵陣へ赴き，美貌を利用してホロフェルネスを欺き，泥酔させて首をはね，アッシリア軍を敗退させ，町と祖国を救う。ユディトは〈ユダヤ人〉の女性形。民族意識高揚をねらった，前2ないし1世紀ごろの著作。

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