Definition of Book of judith

1. Noun. An Apocryphal book telling how Judith saved her people.

Exact synonyms: Judith
Generic synonyms: Book
Group relationships: Apocrypha

Lexicographical Neighbors of Book Of Judith

Book of Esther
Book of Exodus
Book of Ezekiel
Book of Ezra
Book of Genesis
Book of Habakkuk
Book of Haggai
Book of Hosea
Book of Isaiah
Book of Jeremiah
Book of Job
Book of Joel
Book of Jonah
Book of Joshua
Book of Judges
Book of Judith
Book of Lamentations
Book of Leviticus
Book of Malachi
Book of Micah
Book of Mormon
Book of Nahum
Book of Nehemiah
Book of Numbers
Book of Obadiah
Book of Proverbs
Book of Psalms
Book of Revelation
Book of Ruth
Book of Susanna

Literary usage of Book of judith

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"With regard to the Septuagint version of the Book of Judith it should be noted-that it ... Catholics with very few exceptions accept the Book of Judith as a ..."

2. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Walter Raleigh, William Oldys, Thomas Birch (1829)
"This city, saith he, is remembered in the Canticles, and in the book of Judith, and there are that of this city understand David in Psalm cxx. and here the ..."

3. The History of Israel by Heinrich Ewald, Russell Martineau, Joseph Estlin Carpenter (1880)
"... the book of Baruch its a sixth chapter, been lately poured forth aga'n about the The standpoint of writing for Babylonian book of Judith, ..."

4. The Journal of Sacred Literature by John Kitto, Henry Burgess, Benjamin Harris Cowper (1856)
"We shall begin by endeavouring to shew the thoroughly apocryphal and fictitious character of the book of Judith," and a Diodati thinks that the apocryphal ..."

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