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In Christian legend, a woman who saved her
community from a Babylonian siege by killing
the enemy general, Holofernes. The Book of
Judith is part of the Apocrypha, a section of
the Old Testament. Judith, a widow,
approached Holofernes on the pretext of
betraying the besieged Jews. Charming him
with her beauty and wit, she made him drunk
and cut his head off, then incited the Jews
to attack and rout the Babylonian army.