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Brine, Elena Ciletti and  \nHenrike Lähnemann  \nTHE SWORD OF JUDITH  \nAbraham Bosse, Judith Femme Forte, 1645. Engraving in Lescalopier, Les predications. Photo credit: Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.  \nKevin R. Brine, Elena Ciletti and Henrike Lähnemann (eds.)  \nThe Sword of Judith  \nJudith Studies Across the Disciplines  \nCambridge  \n2010  \n40 Devonshire Road, Cambridge, CB1 2BL, United Kingdom  \n[http://www.openbookpublishers.com](http://www.openbookpublishers.com)  \n© 2010 Kevin R. Brine, Elena Ciletti and Henrike Lähnemann  \nSome rights are reserved. This book is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. This license allows for copying any part of the work for personal and non-commercial use, providing author attribution is clearly stated. Details of allowances and restrictions are available at:  \n[http://www.openbookpublishers.com](http://www.openbookpublishers.com)  \nAs with all Open Book Publishers titles, digital material and resources associated with this volume are available from our website:  \n[http://www.openbookpublishers.com](http://www.openbookpublishers.com)  \nISBN Hardback: 978-1-906924-16-4  \nISBN Paperback: 978-1-906924-15-7  \nISBN Digital (pdf): 978-1-906924-17-1  \nAll paper used by Open Book Publishers is SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative), and PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes) Certified.  \nPrinted in the United Kingdom and United States by Lightning Source for Open Book Publishers  \nContents  \nIntroductions  \n1. The Judith Project  \nKevin R. Brine  \n2. The Jewish Textual Traditions  \nDeborah Levine Gera  \n3. Judith in the Christian Tradition  \nElena Ciletti and Henrike Lähnemann  \nWriting Judith Jewish Textual Traditions  \n4. Holofernes’s Canopy in the Septuagint Barbara Schmitz  \n5. Shorter Medieval Hebrew Tales of Judith Deborah Levine Gera  \n6. Food, Sex, and Redemption in Megillat Yehudit (the “Scroll of Judith”)  \nSusan Weingarten  \n7. Shalom bar Abraham’s Book of Judith in Yiddish  \nRuth von Bernuth and Michael Terry Christian Textual Tradition  \n8. Typology and Agency in Prudentius’s Treatment of the Judith Story  \nMarc Mastrangelo  \n9. Judith in Late Anglo-Saxon England  \nTracey-Anne Cooper  \n10. The Prayer of Judith in Two Late-Fifteenth-Century French Mystery Plays  \nJohn Nassichuk  \n11. The Example of Judith in Early Modern French Literature Kathleen M. Llewellyn  \n12. The Aestheticization of Tyrannicide: Du Bartas’s La Judit Robert Cummings  \n13. The Cunning of Judith in Late Medieval German Texts Henrike Lähnemann  \n14. The Role of Judith in Margaret Fell’s Womens Speaking Justified Janet Bartholomew  \n3  \n23  \n41  \n71  \n81  \n97  \n127  \n153  \n169  \n197  \n213  \n227  \n239  \n259  \nStaging Judith Visual Arts  \n15. Judith, Jael, and Humilitas in the Speculum Virginum Elizabeth Bailey  \n16. Judith between the Private and Public Realms in Renaissance Florence  \nRoger J. Crum  \n17. Donatello’s Judith as the Emblem of God’s Chosen People Sarah Blake McHam  \n18. Costuming Judith in Italian Art of the Sixteenth Century Diane Apostolos-Cappadona  \n19. Judith Imagery as Catholic Orthodoxy in Counter-Reformation Italy  \nElena Ciletti  \nMusic and Drama  \n20. Judith, Music, and Female Patrons in Early Modern Italy Kelley Harness  \n21. Judith in Baroque Oratorio  \nDavid Marsh  \n22. Judith in the Italian Unification Process, 1800–1900 Paolo Bernardini  \n23. Marcello and Peri’s Giuditta (1860) Alexandre Lhâa  \n24. Politics, Biblical Debates, and French Dramatic Music on Judith after 1870  \nJann Pasler  \n25. Judith and the “Jew-Eaters” in German Volkstheater Gabrijela Mecky Zaragoza  \nBibliography Abbreviations Indexes  \n275  \n291  \n307  \n325  \n345  \n371  \n385  \n397  \n411  \n431  \n453  \n469  \n495  \n497  \nOnline Resources: [http://www.openbookpublishers.com](http://www.openbookpublishers.com)  \nIllustrations  \npage  \nTitl","cbCaik0KZTk9hIyR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaik0KZTk9hIyR","pdf",6598993,534,"English","# Introductions\n## The Judith Project\n## The Jewish Textual Traditions\n## Judith in the Christian Tradition\n## Writing Judith Jewish Textual Traditions\n## Holofernes’s Canopy in the Septuagint\n## Shorter Medieval Hebrew Tales of Judith\n## Food, Sex, and Redemption in Megillat Yehudit (the “Scroll of Judith”)\n## Shalom bar Abraham’s Book of Judith in Yiddish\n## Typology and Agency in Prudentius’s Treatment of the Judith Story\n## Judith in Late Anglo-Saxon England\n## The Prayer of Judith in Two Late-Fifteenth-Century French Mystery Plays\n## The Example of Judith in Early Modern French Literature\n## The Aestheticization of Tyrannicide: Du Bartas’s La Judit\n## The Cunning of Judith in Late Medieval German Texts\n## The Role of Judith in Margaret Fell’s Womens Speaking Justified\n# Staging Judith Visual Arts\n## Judith, Jael, and Humilitas in the Speculum Virginum\n## Judith between the Private and Public Realms in Renaissance Florence\n## Donatello’s Judith as the Emblem of God’s Chosen People\n## Costuming Judith in Italian Art of the Sixteenth Century\n## Judith Imagery as Catholic Orthodoxy in Counter-Reformation Italy\n# Music and Drama\n## Judith, Music, and Female Patrons in Early Modern Italy\n## Judith in Baroque Oratorio\n## Judith in the Italian Unification Process, 1800–1900\n## Marcello and Peri’s Giuditta (1860)\n## Politics, Biblical Debates, and French Dramatic Music on Judith after 1870\n## Judith and the “Jew-Eaters” in German Volkstheater\n# Bibliography Abbreviations Indexes","[{\"question\":\"What is the central subject of The Sword of Judith?\",\"answer\":\"It studies the Book of Judith across disciplines, analyzing how Judith’s story and themes are interpreted within Jewish and Christian traditions and in later cultural forms.\"},{\"question\":\"Which scholarly areas does the volume cover?\",\"answer\":\"It includes Jewish textual traditions, Christian reception, medieval and early modern literary treatments, visual arts staging, and music and drama.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the book organized?\",\"answer\":\"The volume is structured with introductions and a sequence of numbered essays, followed by sections focused on staging in visual arts and on music and drama.\"}]","The Sword of Judith - Edited by Kevin R. 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