Recap Last week, we learned Judith “put sandals on her feet, and put on her anklets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and all her other ornaments, and made herself very beautiful, to entice the eyes of all men who might see her.” So, Judith and a servant make their way to the Assyrian camp. Judith Goes […]
The Apocrypha, Lesson 6: Judith, Pt. 1
June 11, 2017 by
Introduction Judith is work of religious fiction without the pretense of recounting actual history. The story opens with a fictionalized Nebuchadnezzar making war on an invented King of the Medes, Arphaxad. The first hearers of Judith would catch this, clueing them in to understand Judith for its religious value. The real Nebuchadnezzar was king of […]
