The sword of Judith : Judith studies across the disciplines

The sword of Judith Judith studies across the disciplines

The Book of Judith tells the story of a fictitious Jewish woman beheading Holofernes, the general of a powerful army, to free her people. The story has fascinated artists and authors for centuries, and is becoming a major field of research in its own right. The Sword of Judith is the first multidisc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Brine, Kevin R. (-)
Otros Autores: Ciletti, Elena, 1948-, Lähnemann, Henrike
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] : OpenBook Publishers 2010.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Judith > (Jewish heroine) > In literature.
Judith > (Jewish heroine) > Art.
Social & cultural history
women's studies
the bible
biblical literature
bible studies
judaism
the old testament
book of judith
myth
holofernes
art history
gender studies
christianity
God
Art.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424442806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introductions. The Judith Project / Kevin R. Brine
  • The Jewish Textual Traditions / Deborah Levine Gera
  • Judith in the Christian Tradition / Elena Ciletti and Henrike Lähnemann
  • Writing Judith. Jewish Textual Traditions. Holofernes's Canopy in the Septuagint / Barbara Schmitz
  • Shorter Medieval Hebrew Tales of Judith / Deborah Levine Gera
  • Food, Sex, and Redemption in Megillat Yehudit (the "Scroll of Judith") / Susan Weingarten
  • Shalom bar Abraham's Book of Judith in Yiddish / Ruth von Bernuth and Michael Terry
  • Christian Textual Tradition. Typology and Agency in Prudentius's Treatment of the Judith Story / Marc Mastrangelo
  • Judith in Late Anglo-Saxon England / Tracey-Anne Cooper
  • The Prayer of Judith in Two Late-Fifteenth-Century French Mystery Plays / John Nassichuk
  • The Example of Judith in Early Modern French Literature / Kathleen M. Llewellyn
  • The Aestheticization of Tyrannicide: Du Bartas's La Judit / Robert Cummings
  • The Cunning of Judith in Late Medieval German Texts / Henrike Lähnemann
  • The Role of Judith in Margaret Fell's Womens Speaking Justified / Janet Bartholomew
  • Staging Judith. Visual Arts. Judith, Jael, and Humilitas in the Speculum Virginum / Elizabeth Bailey
  • Judith between the Private and Public Realms in Renaissance Florence / Roger J. Crum
  • Donatello's Judith as the Emblem of God's Chosen People / Sarah Blake McHam
  • Costuming Judith in Italian Art of the Sixteenth Century / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
  • Judith Imagery as Catholic Orthodoxy in Counter-Reformation Italy / Elena Ciletti
  • Music and Drama. Judith, Music, and Female Patrons in Early Modern Italy / Kelley Harness
  • Judith in Baroque Oratorio / David Marsh
  • Judith in the Italian Unification Process, 1800- 1900 / Paolo Bernardini
  • Marcello and Peri's Giuditta (1860) / Alexandre Lhâa
  • Politics, Biblical Debates, and French Dramatic Music on Judith after 1870 / Jann Pasler
  • Judith and the "Jew-Eaters" in German Volkstheater / Gabrijela Mecky Zaragoza.

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