Of "... Jewish Books in Christian Bibles"

Inside-Out
By Malka Z. Simkovich

Introduction to the Apocrypha: Jewish Books in Christian Bibles
Lawrence M. Wills
Yale University Press
328 pp., $38

One of the most popular Jewish stories that circulated in the late
Second Temple period begins with representatives of the Assyrian king
Nebuchadnezzar ordering Judeans to support their military campaign.
When the Judeans refuse, the empire sends a general named Holofernes
to punish them—first through siege and starvation and then by attack.
As the town of Bethulia’s panicked elders declare a public fast, a
woman named Judith concocts a bolder plan.

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