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https://www.bibleodyssey.org/en/people/main-articles/judith

https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/all-women-bible/Judith

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But Judith also lies repeatedly and prays that God will approve her deceit . Her lies drip with irony and double entendre. She thus joins the ranks of other women who lie for the survival of Israel: Rebekah, Tamar, the midwives Shiphrah and Puah, Rahab, and Esther.

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Judith’s name means “Jewess” and may represent the nation Israel as it struggles to keep its Jewish identity in the Greco-Roman world. Childless and wealthy, she is not a typical widow. Judith prays and fasts regularly and keeps kosher, living an almost ascetic life after her husband’s death . Her piety is well-known: “No one spoke ill of her, for she feared God with great devotion” . She is honored by the longest genealogy of any biblical woman.

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1670 Abraham Blooteling (1640-1690), Judith.jpg

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The Book of Judith - Uncovering the Deuterocanonical Books

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Judith was the daughter of Beeri the Hittite and one of the wives of Esau whom he married when he was forty years old.

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Judith is the feminine form of Judah. Wilkinson observes that “Judith as a pure Hebrew name is a feminine form of Jehudie, which as a proper name has the same sense as Judah, ‘praise’ or ‘one who is praised.’” Unsuccessful efforts have been made to identify Judith with Aholibamah spoken of as a wife of Esau . As a female name Judith has ever been a popular one. There are over 250,000 girls and women in America alone who are known by this name. Judith is the heroine in the apocryphal book bearing her name.

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Judith knows her power over men. Throughout the book, it seems Judith merely smiles and men collapse. Wisely appealing to their senses of sight and smell, she mesmerizes them. Her weapons of warfare are sensual and material.

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Judith commands, plans, leads. She enters the book bearing her name when the Assyrians have cut off the water supply of Bethulia, the town at the entrance of the narrow corridor leading to Jerusalem .

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The siege, which has lasted 34 days, has made the people fractious, thirsty, and bitter.

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Judith acts for the common good. Judith murders Holofernes, the enemy of Israel, a world-class bully who slaughtered his way through Put, Lud, the lands of the Rassisites and the Ishmaelites, the walled towns along Wadi Abron, and Cilicia; he set fire to the tents of the Midiantites and the fields of Damascus.