ABSTRACT
Is the Book of Judith in part modeled on Herodotus’s account of the Persian invasions of Greece in the fifth century b.c.e.? Was the author of Judith acquainted with the Histories? The idea is by no means a new one; and most students of Judith seem not to find it very interesting. 1 But if it should ever come to be seen as not only interesting but even probably correct, it would alter our appreciation of Judith, its author, and its genre. No less important, it would offer another curious detail to complicate further our already very complicated ideas about Hellenistic Jewish culture.
