Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Ken Penner" <ken.penner AT acadiau.ca>]

It does appear that the Greek text of Judith we now possess was translated 
from Hebrew (not Aramaic), based on mistranslations and Hebrew idioms. See M. 
S. Enslin's comments in _The Book of Judith_ (Brill, 1972). 
A. M. Dubarle thinks the late Hebrew texts of Judith we possess derive from 
the original Hebrew. (VT 11:86-87; Biblica 50:187-211 and 56:503-511) See 
also M. Gaster earlier, in PSBA 16:156-63 and F. Zimmermann in JBL 57:67-74.

Regarding canonicity, Moore (in ABD) suggests a few reasons it was rejected:  
Judith was too liberated; Achior was an Ammonite; Achior was not baptized. 
The latter is considered most likely.

Ken

Ken M. Penner, Ph.D. (McMaster)
Acadia/Greek&Hebrew
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> [mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Søren Holst
> Sent: December 2, 2007 5:02 PM
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> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Book of Judith
> 
> 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
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> Emne: Re: [b-hebrew] Book of Judith
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> 
> 
> 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
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> 
> >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
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