The Sword of Judith -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Author biographies -- 1. The Judith Project -- 2. The Jewish Textual Traditions -- 3. Judith in the Christian Tradition -- Jewish Textual Traditions -- 4. Holofernes's Canopy in the Septuagint -- 5. Shorter Medieval Hebrew Tales of Judith -- 6. Food, Sex, and Redemption in Megillat Yehudit (the "Scroll of Judith") -- 7. Shalom bar Abraham's Book of Judith in Yiddish -- Christian Textual Tradition -- 8. Typology and Agency in Prudentius's Treatment of the Judith Story -- 9. Judith in Late Anglo-Saxon England -- 10. The Prayer of Judith in Two Late-Fifteenth-Century French Mystery Plays -- 11. The Example of Judith in Early Modern French Literature -- 12. The Aestheticization of Tyrannicide: Du Bartas's La Judit -- 13. The Cunning of Judith in Late Medieval German Texts -- 14. The Role of Judith in Margaret Fell's Womens Speaking Justified -- Visual Arts -- 15. Judith, Jael, and Humilitas in the Speculum Virginum -- 16. Judith between the Private and Public Realms in Renaissance Florence -- 17. Donatello's Judith as the Emblem of God's Chosen People -- 18. Costuming Judith in Italian Art of the Sixteenth Century -- 19. Judith Imagery as Catholic Orthodoxy in Counter-Reformation Italy -- Music and Drama -- 20. Judith, Music, and Female Patrons in Early Modern Italy -- 21. Judith in Baroque Oratorio -- 22. Judith in the Italian Unification Process, 1800-1900 -- 23. Marcello and Peri's Giuditta (1860) -- 24. Politics, Biblical Debates, and French Dramatic Music on Judith after 1870 -- 25. Judith and the "Jew-Eaters" in German Volkstheater -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Indexes.