This is a great story about Holofernes' campaign against the people of Israel, and the pivotal role that Judith played in dealing with the enemy.
The text was taken from the Clementine Text Project (http://vulsearch.sourceforge.net/gettext.html), and is in the public domain. Image courtesy of Markus Reinhardt (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tuxxilla/), some rights reserved (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en).
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