The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines

The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines

Kevin R. Brine (editor), Elena Ciletti (editor), Henrike Lähnemann (editor)

The Book of Judith tells the story of a fictitious Jewish woman beheading Holofernes, the general of a powerful army, to free her people. The story has fascinated artists and authors for centuries, and is becoming a major field of research in its own right.

The Sword of Judith is the first multidisciplinary collection of essays to discuss representations of Judith throughout the centuries. Bringing together scholars from around the world, it transforms our understanding of Judith’s enduring story across a wide range of disciplines. The book includes sections on Judith in Christian, Jewish and secular textual traditions, as well as representations of Judith in art, music and theatre. The collection includes new archival source studies and the translation of unpublished manuscripts and texts previously unavailable in English.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0009

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/

Copyright

Kevin R. Brine, Elena Ciletti; Henrike Lähnemann

Published On

2010-07-01

ISBN

Paperback978-1-906924-15-7

Hardback978-1-906924-16-4

PDF978-1-906924-17-1

HTML978-1-80064-436-6

Language

• English

Print Length

534 pages (xix + 514)

Contents

The Judith Project

(pp. 3–21)

• Kevin R. Brine

The Jewish Textual Traditions

(pp. 23–39)

• Deborah Levine Gera

Judith in the Christian Tradition

(pp. 41–65)

• Henrike Lähnemann
• Elena Ciletti

Holofernes's Canopy in the Septuagint

(pp. 71–80)

• Barbara Schmitz

Shorter Medieval Hebrew Tales of Judith

(pp. 81–95)

• Deborah Levine Gera

Food, Sex, and Redemption in Megillat Yehudit (the "Scroll of Judith")

(pp. 97–125)

• Susan Weingarten

Shalom bar Abraham's Book of Judith in Yiddish

(pp. 127–150)

• Ruth von Bernuth
• Michael Terry

Typology and Agency in Prudentius's Treatment of the Judith Story

(pp. 153–168)

• Marc Mastrangelo

Judith in Late Anglo-Saxon England

(pp. 169–196)

• Tracey-Anne Cooper

The Prayer of Judith in Two Late-Fifteenth-Century French Mystery Plays

(pp. 197–211)

• John Nassichuk

The Example of Judith in Early Modern French Literature

(pp. 213–225)

• Kathleen M. Llewellyn

The Aestheticization of Tyrannicide: Du Bartas's La Judit

(pp. 227–238)

• Robert Cummings

The Cunning of Judith in Late Medieval German Texts

(pp. 239–258)

• Henrike Lähnemann

The Role of Judith in Margaret Fell's Womens Speaking Justified

(pp. 259–270)

• Janet Bartholomew

Judith, Jael, and Humilitas in the Speculum Virginum

(pp. 275–290)

• Elizabeth Bailey

Judith between the Private and Public Realms in Renaissance Florence

(pp. 291–306)

• Roger J. Crum

Donatello's Judith as the Emblem of God's Chosen People

(pp. 307–324)

• Sarah Blake McHam

Costuming Judith in Italian Art of the Sixteenth Century

(pp. 325–343)

• Diane Apostolos-Cappadona

Judith Imagery as Catholic Orthodoxy in Counter-Reformation Italy

(pp. 345–368)

• Elena Ciletti

Judith, Music, and Female Patrons in Early Modern Italy

(pp. 371–383)

• Kelley Harness

Judith in Baroque Oratorio

(pp. 385–396)

• David Marsh

Judith in the Italian Unification Process, 1800-1900

(pp. 397–409)

• Paolo Bernardini

Marcello and Peri's Giuditta (1860)

(pp. 411–430)

• Alexandre Lhâa

Politics, Biblical Debates, and French Dramatic Music on Judith after 1870

(pp. 431–452)

• Jann Pasler

Judith and the "Jew-Eaters" in German Volkstheater

(pp. 453–467)

• Gabrijela Mecky Zaragoza