Who Ought to Be Sentenced to Death and Why?: Reasons and Legal Justifications of the Death Penalty in the Book of Judith
The paper primarily scrutinises the death penalty of Holofernes in terms of its reasons, legal justification, and the way of its realisation in the Judith story. The study further reveals the identity of other narrative characters who faced the threat of capital punishment and inquires into the grou...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2026
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Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Year: 2026, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 34-62 |
| Further subjects: | B
Death Penalty
B Judith B Blasphemy B Decapitation B Holofernes B Septuagint |
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