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  • From: jvass AT indiana.edu
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Book of Judith
  • Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 00:30:13 -0500

A decent article on this subject can be found here:


http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=711&letter=J

JUDITH, BOOK OF:
By : Crawford Howell Toy Charles C. Torrey

ARTICLE HEADINGS:
Title.
General Character and Contents.
Historical Setting.
The City Bethulia.
Identity of Bethulia.
Literary and Religious Importance.
Original Language; Versions.
Author and Date.
Possible Date of Composition.



Quoting Søren Holst <sh AT teol.ku.dk>:

Er, could it be that Pere assumes Judith must be *originally* written
in Hebrew?

I don't think this is supposed to be the case, and certainly a Hebrew
original is not extant.

That could be one reason (as suggested by someone a bit earlier) that
it was left out of the canon (although we don't know the exact
criteria used to decide what went in and what was left out).

kol tuv
Soren

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Fra: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org på vegne af Yigal Levin
Sendt: sø 02-12-2007 21:36
Til: b-hebrew
Emne: Re: [b-hebrew] Book of Judith



Dear Pere,

I don't know of an online translation of Judith into Hebrew. The two printed
translations that I know of (I'm sure that there are others) are by M.
Simon, in the second volume of the Hebrew Apocrypha edited by A. Kahana from
1956 and that of Y.M. Grintz from 1957. But why read a translation into
Hebrew, and not into your own language?

Yigal Levin
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Book of Judith


I do not know whether these are appropriate questions for this list.

1. Does anyone know where the Hebrew text of the book of Judith --not
found
in the Hebrew canon-- is available, either online or in printed form?
Logically, this is for the case that such Hebrew text exists or has been
preserved; otherwise... no question.

2. Does anyone know why, for which reasons, the book of Judith was not
included in the Jewish canon?

Pere Porta
Barcelona (Spain)

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