Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Thank you, whoever it was that posted that information. I would point out 
that this article, like all of the online Jewish Encyclopedia, is over a 
century old, and a lot has been written since that time. An online English 
translation, of Judith, by the way, can be found here: 
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/r/rsv/rsv-idx?type=DIV1&byte=3825845.

Also, I would remind everybody to please sign your posts.

Yigal Levin


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


> 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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> > To: <dwashbur AT nyx.net>; <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 12:25 PM
> > 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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