The Sword of Judith Judith Studies Across the Disciplines

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The Judith Project 3 Kevin R. Brine 2. The Jewish Textual Traditions 23 Deborah Levine Gera 3. Judith in the Christian Tradition 41 Elena Ciletti and Henrike Lahnemann Writing Judith Jewish Textual Traditions 4. Holofernes`s Canopy in the Septuagint 71 Barbara Schmitz 5. Shorter Medieval Hebrew Tales of Judith 81 Deborah Levine Gera 6. Food, Sex, and Redemption in Megillat Yehudit(the "Scroll of Judith") 97 Susan Weingarten 7. Shalom bar Abraham`s Book of Judith in Yiddish 127 Ruth van Bernuth and Michael Terry Christian Textual Tradition 8. Typology and Agency in Prudentius`s Treatment of the Judith Story 153 Marc Mastrangelo 9. Judith in Late Anglo-Saxon England 169 Tracey-Anne Cooper 10. The Prayer of Judith in Two Late-Fifteenth-Century French Mystery Plays 197 John Nassichuk 11. The Example of Judith in Early Modern French Literature 213 Kathleen M. Llewellyn 12. The Aestheticization of Tyrannicide: Du Bartas`s La Judit 227 Robert Cummings 13. The Cunning of Judith in Late Medieval German Texts 239 Henrike Lahnemann 14. The Role of Judith in Margaret Fell`s Womens Speaking Justified 259 Janet Bartholomew Staging Judith Visual Arts 15. Judith, Jael, and Humilitas in the Speculum Virginum Elizabeth Bailey 16. Judith between the Private and Public Realms in Renaissance Florence Roger J. Crum 17. Donatello`s Judith as the Emblem of God`s Chosen People Sarah Blake McHam 18. Costuming Judith in Italian Art of the Sixteenth Century Diane Apostolos-Cappadona 19. Judith Imagery as Catholic Orthodoxy in Counter-Reformation Italy Elena Ciletti Music and Drama 20. Judith, Music, and Female Patrons in Early Modern Italy Kelley Harness 21. Judith in Baroque Oratorio David Marsh 22. Judith in the Italian Unification Process, 1800-1900 Paolo Bernardini 23. Marcello and Peri`s Giuditta (1860) Alexandre Lhaa 24. Politics, Biblical Debates, and French Dramatic Music on Judith after 1870 Jann Pasler 25. Judith and the "Jew-Eaters" in German Volkstheater Gabrijela Mecky Zaragoza