When you open the story of Judith you are greeted with a beautiful woman who is mourning the death of her husband. By today’s notion this women will remain heart broken and only do things to remember the lost love one they are mourning for. Instead we are given a totally different side of Judith as she carries out an act that most of the men in her home are too afraid to do. This story is not only one of Anglo-Saxon proportion but one of Biblical tales as well. Though both of them are about the exact same subject type they are both portrayed very differently than the other. Though the two stories are about the same events it is very clear that the translator of the Anglo-Saxon version took the sixteen chapter book and condensed it down considerably.
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This is not because she is not doing something it is more because we have over time lost the text. But, this is similar to the book as Judith personally does not appear until chapter 8. The first seven chapters give more of a description of the leading up to Judith’s story. In it we learn more about the war that is being raged. But as Brookbanks points out in her article “The Participation of Women in the Anglo-Saxon World: Judith and The Wife 's Lament” that our poet seems to constantly foreshadowing the win yet never really gives all that much of a background as to why it is what it is (Brookbanks). This is important because we know more in terms of the world around and more so why Judith is even more determined to do what she is about to do than we ever get in the epic of Judith. So if you were to never read at least some of the “Book of Judith” or know a bit about it you would not have all the backstory and the means to understand why Judith is doing …show more content…
In the poem version she is more commonly seen as very wise. There are many different ways that it is put in the poem. In this article she points out “clever woman” and “wise woman” among others (Brookbanks). Of course when Judith is introduced so abruptly in the Book of Judith the first thing we are told of her is who she is related to and when that is out of the way who her husband is. Finally after all that we learn in chapter eight of The Book of Judith that she is only called a “holy woman and one fearing God (Judith 8:29). In both of the two telling’s of this story one of the few things that both talk about Judith is her Beauty, in the epic it is used to show her similar to a Valkyrie- to follow along with the strength thing. The biblical version also speaks greatly of the beauty she possessed but in chapter ten we are shown a reason why she is just so beautiful “therefore the Lord increased this her beauty, so that she appeared to all men 's eyes incomparably lovely (Judith 10:4). So this of course is in the whole idea that God gives things to those that will do his
This is not because she is not doing something it is more because we have over time lost the text. But, this is similar to the book as Judith personally does not appear until chapter 8. The first seven chapters give more of a description of the leading up to Judith’s story. In it we learn more about the war that is being raged. But as Brookbanks points out in her article “The Participation of Women in the Anglo-Saxon World: Judith and The Wife 's Lament” that our poet seems to constantly foreshadowing the win yet never really gives all that much of a background as to why it is what it is (Brookbanks). This is important because we know more in terms of the world around and more so why Judith is even more determined to do what she is about to do than we ever get in the epic of Judith. So if you were to never read at least some of the “Book of Judith” or know a bit about it you would not have all the backstory and the means to understand why Judith is doing …show more content…
In the poem version she is more commonly seen as very wise. There are many different ways that it is put in the poem. In this article she points out “clever woman” and “wise woman” among others (Brookbanks). Of course when Judith is introduced so abruptly in the Book of Judith the first thing we are told of her is who she is related to and when that is out of the way who her husband is. Finally after all that we learn in chapter eight of The Book of Judith that she is only called a “holy woman and one fearing God (Judith 8:29). In both of the two telling’s of this story one of the few things that both talk about Judith is her Beauty, in the epic it is used to show her similar to a Valkyrie- to follow along with the strength thing. The biblical version also speaks greatly of the beauty she possessed but in chapter ten we are shown a reason why she is just so beautiful “therefore the Lord increased this her beauty, so that she appeared to all men 's eyes incomparably lovely (Judith 10:4). So this of course is in the whole idea that God gives things to those that will do his