Judith - A New Translation With Introduction and Commentary

Klappentext In the Apocrypha! Judith is the saint who murdered for her people. She offered herself to Holofernes! the Assyrian general sent by Nebuchadnezzar to destroy the Israelites. This volume considers the historicity of the story and explores the author's true intent: Was it to describe actual events or to compose a fictitious story of other purposes? Zusammenfassung In the Apocrypha! Judith is the saint who murdered for her people. She offered herself to Holofernes! the Assyrian general sent by Nebuchadnezzar to destroy the Israelites. This volume considers the historicity of the story and explores the author's true intent: Was it to describe actual events or to compose a fictitious story of other purposes?

Product details

• Authors: Carey A. Moore
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.03.1995
• EAN: 9780300139952
• ISBN: 978-0-300-13995-2
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Anchor Yale Bible (Paper); The Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries; Anchor Yale Bible (Paper); Anchor Bible Commentary (YUP)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity