Brine-Ciletti-Lahnemann. The Sword of Judith

Today's free book is The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines by Kevin R. Brine, Elena Ciletti and Henrike Lähnemann  (2010). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Open Book Publishers:


Table of Contents

1.  The Judith Project
Kevin R. Brine

2. The Jewish Textual Traditions
Deborah Levine Gera

3. Judith in the Christian Tradition
Elena Ciletti and Henrike Lähnemann

Part 1. Writing Judith

1.1 Jewish Textual Traditions

4. Holofernes's Canopy in the Septuagint
Barbara Schmitz

5. Shorter Medieval Hebrew Tales of Judith
Deborah Levine Gera

6. Food, Sex, and Redemption in Megillat Yehudit (the "Scroll of Judith")
Susan Weingarten

7. Shalom bar Abraham's Book of Judith in Yiddish
Ruth von Bernuth and Michael Terry

1.2 Christian Textual Tradition

8. Typology and Agency in Prudentius's Treatment of the Judith Story
Marc Mastrangelo

9. Judith in Late Anglo-Saxon England
Tracey-Anne Cooper

10. The Prayer of Judith in Two Late-Fifteenth-Century French Mystery Plays
John Nassichuk

11. The Example of Judith in Early Modern French Literature
Kathleen M. Llewellyn

12. The Aestheticization of Tyrannicide: Du Bartas's La Judit
Robert Cummings

13. The Cunning of Judith in Late Medieval German Texts
Henrike Lähnemann

14. The Role of Judith in Margaret Fell's Womens Speaking Justified
Janet Bartholomew

Part 2. Staging Judith   

2.1 Visual Arts

15. Judith, Jael, and Humilitas in the Speculum Virginum
Elizabeth Bailey

16. Judith between the Private and Public Realms in Renaissance Florence
Roger J. Crum

17. Donatello's Judith as the Emblem of God's Chosen People
Sarah Blake McHam

18. Costuming Judith in Italian Art of the Sixteenth Century
Diane Apostolos-Cappadona

19. Judith Imagery as Catholic Orthodoxy in Counter-Reformation Italy
Elena Ciletti

2.2 Music and Drama

20. Judith, Music, and Female Patrons in Early Modern Italy
Kelley Harness

21. Judith in Baroque Oratorio
David Marsh

22. Judith in the Italian Unification Process, 1800-1900
Paolo Bernardini

23. Marcello and Peri's Giuditta (1860)
Alexandre Lhâa

24. Politics, Biblical Debates, and French Dramatic Music on Judith after 1870
Jann Pasler

25. Judith and the "Jew-Eaters" in German Volkstheater
Gabrijela Mecky Zaragoza