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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
>
> ________________________________
>
> 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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