Protestant Bibles don’t contain the book of Judith, although it was part of canon for the Eastern and Western Church until the Reformation. It seems, though, St. Jerome had a bit of a struggle—I looked it up and he had to translate from the Chaldean texts to Latin. (We saw his cell when we were in the Holy Land.)
There is a web site that focuses just on Biblical films, Bible Films Blog. It is amazing, or maybe not, how many films have been made about Judith. The author, Matt Page (UK), is going to be writing about Judith the next week or so, and begins with a collation of all the films he could find, and the first 3 are silent films.
He lists 13 films about Judith—it has everything for today’s audience; religion, sex, violence, and politics.
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