Judith

Judith may refer to:

In names:

• Judith (name), female given name

In people:

• Queen Judith, a number of women in the medieval period with this name
• Judith (Genesis), a character in the Book of Genesis
• Judith, daughter of Welf, a Frankish queen
• Judith of Friuli, daughter of Evrard of Friuli
• Judith of Flanders, Princes of the Carolingian Franks, Queen of Wessex, Countess of Flanders
• Judith of Schweinfurt (in Czech: Jitka ze Svinibrodu), wife of Bretislaus I of Bohemia
• Gudit, a 10th century queen who sacked Axum, now in Ethiopia; also known as Judith or Yudit
• Judith Mossman, a character in the computer game Half-Life 2

In literature:

• Book of Judith, a deuterocanonical book of the Old Testament
• Judith (homily), an Old English homily by Aelfric of Eynsham
• "Judith" (poem), an Old English poem about the heroine of the Book of Judith
• Judith, a 1501 Croatian epic poem by Marko Marulić
• "Judith", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1972 book Seventh Heaven
• Judith (novel), by Irish author Brian Cleeve
• Judith (Van Herk novel), a 1978 novel by Aritha van Herk
• Judith (Mosley novel), a 1986 novel by Nicholas Mosley

In theater:

• Judith (play), an 1841 tragedy by Friedrich Hebbel about the Biblical heroine
• Judith (oratorio), by Hubert Parry

In art:

• Judith (Giorgione), a painting by the Italian painter Giorgione, circa 1504

In film:

• Judith (1923 film), a 1923 Dutch film
• Judith (1966 film), a 1966 film set in Palestine shortly before the end of the British mandate

In music:

• Judith, the 1761 oratorio by Thomas Arne
• Judith (oratorio), a 1888 work by Hubert Parry
• Judith (Serov), an 1863 opera by Alexander Serov
• Judith (Matthus), a 1984 opera by Siegfried Matthus
• Judith, a 1949 ballet by William Schuman
• "Judith" (song), by A Perfect Circle from their 2000 album Mer de Noms
• Judith (album), released by singer Judy Collins

In astronomy:

• 664 Judith, a minor planet orbiting the Sun

See also

• Judy (disambiguation)

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