Ebook: Judith
Author: Benno J. Timmer (ed.)
- Genre: Literature
- Series: Methuen’s Old English Library
- Year: 1966
- Publisher: Appleton-Century-Crofts
- City: New York
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English, Old English
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The Old English poem "Judith" describes the beheading of Assyrian general Holofernes by Israelite Judith of Bethulia. It is found in the same manuscript as the heroic poem "Beowulf", the Nowell Codex (London, British Library, Cotton MS Vitellius A. XV), dated ca. 975–1025.
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