Judith, the protagonist of the Book of Judith, introduced in chapter 8 as a God-fearing woman, she is the daughter of Merari, a Simeonite, and widow of a certain Manasseh or Manasses, a wealthy farmer. She was upset with her Judean countrymen for not trusting God to deliver them from their foreign conquerors.

So she sends her maid or "waitingwoman" to summon Uzziah so she can challenge his decision to capitulate to the Assyrians if God has not rescued the people of Bethulia within five days, and she uses her charm to become an intimate friend of Holofernes, the Assyrian general, promising him information on the people of Israel.

Gaining his trust, she is allowed access to his tent one night as he lies in a drunken stupor. She decapitates him, then takes his head back to her fearful countrymen. The Assyrians, having lost their leader, disperse, and Israel is saved. Though she is courted by many, Judith remains unmarried for the rest of her life.

Judith's maid, not named in the story, remains with her throughout the narrative and goes with Judith to the camp of Holofernesis to behead him. The maid is given her freedom as the story ends.

In the Christian West from the patristic period on, Judith was invoked in a wide variety of texts as a multi-faceted allegorical figure. As a "Mulier sancta", she personified the Church and many virtues – Humility, Justice, Fortitude, Chastity (the opposite of Holofernes' vices Pride, Tyranny, Decadence, Lust) – and she was, like the other heroic women of the Hebrew scriptural tradition, made into a typological prefiguration of the Virgin Mary. Her gender made her a natural example of the biblical paradox of "strength in weakness"; she is thus paired with David and her beheading of Holofernes paralleled with that of Goliath – both deeds saved the Covenant People from a militarily superior enemy.

The Catholic Church has always considered the book to be a historical document, and it is included with the other historical books in the Old Testament of Catholic Bibles. However the names of people are either unknown to history or appear to be anachronistic, and many of the place names are also unknown. Today, outside of the church it is generally accepted that the Book of Judith's historicity is dubious. The fictional nature "is evident from its blending of history and fiction, beginning in the very first verse, and is too prevalent thereafter to be considered the result of mere historical mistakes."

All published appearances of Judith from before January 1, )-(95)}} are public domain in the US.

* Septuagint (Greek Old Testament)
*Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Bible - Old Testament
** The Book of Judith
*Judita (1501)
*A Treatise of Schisme (1578)
*Bartholomaei Tortoletti Iuditha uindex e uindicata (1628)

* Spem in alium (1570)
* Judith sive Bethulia liberata H.391 (mid-1670s)
* La Giuditta (1693)
* Juditha triumphans (1716)
* La Giuditta (1726)
* La Betulia Liberata (1771)
* Judith (1925)

* Judith of Bethulia (1905)
* Judith of Bethulia (1914)
* Judith (1919)

* The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible but excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to the apocrypha.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Judith Wikipedia]
*[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/judith/4005-24456/issues-cover/ ComicVine]
*[https://myths-in-media.fandom.com/wiki/Judith Myths in Media Wiki]
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