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Judith (poem)
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Judith (poem)
The
Old English
poem
Judith
describes the beheading of Assyrian general
Holofernes
by Israelite Judith of
Bethulia
. It is found in the same manuscript as the heroic poem
Beowulf
, the
Nowell Codex
(
London, British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius A. XV]
, dated ca. 975-1025. The Old English poem is one of many retellings of the Holofernes–Judith tale as it was found in the
Book of Judith
, still present in the
Catholic
and
Orthodox Christian
Bibles. Most notably,
Ælfric of Eynsham
, late 10th-century Anglo-Saxon abbot and writer, composed a
homily
(in prose) of the tale.
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