English Literature / Unit 3 ENL 0215 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Judith
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The idea
Judith survives in the same manuscript as Beowulf and retells the biblical Book of Judith in heroic verse. The Hebrew heroine beheads the Assyrian general Holofernes, and the anchor calls her a female, more Christian Beowulf, rewarded with spoils like any warrior.
In practice
A biblical heroine as a warrior.
Where people slip
The poem is a fragment of the story.
Your place on the trail
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