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. Holoferne'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 -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Index.