Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Barbara Schmitz
• Henrike Lähnemann
• Kevin R. Brine
• Elena Ciletti

Titel

Holofernes’s Canopy in the Septuagint

Ist Teil von

• The Sword of Judith, 2010, p.71

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Open Book Publishers

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Judith beheads Holofernes – the provocative nature of the story related in the Book of Judith is immediately clear from this somewhat oversimplified summary of the biblical tale. The fact that a man is killed by a woman means that the story was, and sometimes still is, perceived as scandalous. A wide variety of models have been constructed to interpret Judith’s shocking deed, including most notably in modern times the influential interpretations by Friedrich Hebbel and Sigmund Freud.¹ Interestingly, however, the question of how we should understand Judith’s deed is not only one for the later reception of the story, but