Judith And Jael
The heroines in the Book of Judges and in the Book of Judith are powerful women executing the men who were against God. The difference is that Jael, wife of Heber the Kenite killed the man who wanted to destroy the Israelites, the commander of King Jabin of Canaan; Sisera, by sudden inspiration, when he came to her for safety. On the other hand, Judith, a widow from the town of Judea had a carefully thought out plan for her assassination of Holofernes, the chief general of Nebuchadnezzar King of the Assyrian’s. Each book represents these women as saviors to their people, and as a force of God’s judgment.
Judith is represented as a beautiful, wise woman with much devotion to God. All the people in her town of Judea looked up to her for the wisdom and understanding she had in the Lord God, and believed along with her that God will help them to defeat Holofernes, and his army. In the book of Judges, Deborah, the only female judge, ordered that Barak son of Abinoam from......
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