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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Bethulia
		The view that Bethulia is merely a symbolic name for Jerusalem or a fictitious town, has met with little favor, even among those who deny the historical character of the book.
		Bethulia is clearly distinguished from Jerusalem (iv, 6; xi, 14, 19; xv, 5, 8; the references throughout the article being to the fuller Greek text), and the topographical details leave no doubt that the story, even if it be only a pious romance, is connected with a definite place.
		The city was situated on a mountain overlooking the plain of Jezrael, or Esdrelon, and commanding narrow; passes to the south (iv, 6, 7; vi, 11-13); at the foot of the mountain there was an important spring, and other springs were in the neighborhood (vi, 11, vii, 3, 7, 12).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02537b.htm (431 words)

	Holofernes - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The basic story is that Holofernes was attacking Bethulia, a Jewish city.
		Bethulia was close to surrender until it was saved by Judith, a beautiful Jewish widow.
		Judith returned to Bethulia with the decapitated head, and the Jews subsequently defeated the attacking enemy.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Holofernes (83 words)

	Judith of Bethulia
		1 From the Apocrypha and the poetical tragedy of "Judith of Bethulia" by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
		MAE MARSH 7 In those days the walled city of Bethulia was situated in the hill country, so that it guarded the passages of Jerusalem.
		ROBERT HARRON 10 And the stout walls of Bethulia were fifty cubits thick 11 The market-place within the walls of Bethulia 12 In Bethulia in those days dwelt Judith the devout, widow of Manasses, held in great reverence by all the inhabitants.
	www.geocities.com /emruf5/judith.html (958 words)

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		Bethulia was besieged by the army of Holofernes, an Assyrian commander.
		As the sun was setting in Bethulia that evening, Lois and her husband moved into the home of Judith and her children.
		Therefore, the fortified village of Bethulia had to be subdued or reduced for the other Hebrew tribes to lose spirit and be crushed by Holofernes' forces.
	www.lcfanfic.com /stories/2004/ancient.txt (7394 words)

	Judith of Bethulia review
		Bethulia is a fortified town of Judea, guarding a hill pass through which an invading Assyrian army must march in order to enter Judea.
		Bethulia is on the verge of famine, and the besieged are almost ready to surender the fortress and all Judea to the spoilers, when Judith goes forth in her finest raiment, accompanied only by her maid, enters the Assryian camp and obtains an interview with the merciless Holofernes.
		In spite of the undoubtedly vast sum expended for architectural and other "props" to conform to the period in which the story is laid, Marsden did not deem it necessary to recruit a cast of star players with names illustrious in the legitimate dramatic world.
	www.silentsaregolden.com /judithofbethuliareview.html (1215 words)

	Judith of Bethulia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The story is set in Bible times and depicts the attempted capture by the Assyrians of the walled city of Bethulia, but before the inhabitants starve to death in their beleaguered city, Judith is inspired with a plan to rescue her people.
		The seocnd film, "Home Sweet Home" was written and directed by DW Griffith, and is a forerunner to "Intolerance" a few years later, having four different stories with the same theme woven throughout.
		In contrast to "Judith of Bethulia", this is a fast-paced film with more intertitles and various messages to think about.
	www.freeglossary.com /p:6302730791 (578 words)

	Judith of Bethulia commentary
		Her greatest role while under Griffith is undoubtably "Judith of Bethulia." After leaving Griffith, one of her best performances was in "Anna Christie" (1923), the first screen adaptation of the Eugene O'Neil play.
		The length of "Judith of Bethulia" is a valid point for criticism.
		Naomi is captured by the Assyrians, and when the army of Bethulia overruns the Assyrian camp, Nathan saves her at the last moment from a burning tent where she has been tied up - a typical Griffith last-minute rescue.
	www.silentsaregolden.com /featurefolder3/judithcommentary.html (1851 words)

	RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: Bowie, Costello, Cox, Engels, Gundlach, Herr, Meyer, Rick, Ryan, Schumacher, Wagner*
		Bethulia Rice was born 24 Mar 1703/04 in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and died Aft 1772.
		Katharine Rice was born 6 Feb 1712/13, and died Bef 1772.
		Israel Gates was born 25 Jan 1727/28 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and died 31 Aug 1807 in Conway, Franklin, Massachusetts.
	worldconnect.rootsweb.com /cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=sueream&id=I108329 (502 words)

	Judith of Bethulia scenes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The citizens of Bethulia are caught by surprise at the well outside their walled city.
		Judith covers herself in sackcloth and ashes in preparation for the deed she is about to commit - go into Holofernes' camp, seduce and kill him.
		Water must be rationed in Bethulia as the seige of the city goes on for days.
	www.silentsaregolden.com /featurefolder3/judithscenes.html (160 words)

	HOLOFERNES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Im Buch wird erzählt, dass Holofernes die jüdische Stadt Bethulia angreift.
		Die Einwohner sind kurz davor, sich zu ergeben, als die Stadt von Judit, einer hübschen jüdischen Witwe, gerettet wird.
		Judit kehrt mit dem abgeschlagenen Kopf nach Bethulia zurück, und die Juden können die Angreifer besiegen.
	www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/H/Holofernes (91 words)

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		And the children of Israel coming down from Bethulia, came to him, and loosing him they brought him to Bethulia, and setting him in the midst of the people, asked him what was the matter that the Assyrians had left him bound.
		And the rest that were in Bethulia went into the camp of the Assyrians, and took away the spoils which the Assyrians in their flight had left behind them, and they were laden exceedingly, 15:8.
		But they that returned conquerors to Bethulia, brought with them all things that were theirs, so that there was no numbering of their cattle, and beasts, and all their moveables, insomuch that from the least to the greatest all were made rich by their spoils.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext05/drb1810.txt (11191 words)

	JUDITH, NRSV APOCRYPHA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Judith, a Jewish widow, so beguiles Holofernes, the invincible head of the Assyrian army, and all his servants and soldiers that she is able to assassinate him in the middle of his camp and sneak away without being caught.
		She is introduced as a traditionally ideal Jewish woman in many aspects: beautiful, well-connected, devoted to God and her late husband; yet it is she, and not the male rulers of Bethulia, who acts to save the town and rallies the people to her cause.
		She died in Bethulia, and they buried her in the cave of her husband Manasseh; 24 and the house of Israel mourned her for seven days.
	www.anova.org /sev/htm/ap/02_judith.htm (10556 words)

	MANTIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Hearing of Holofernes' plot, Judith, a widowed resident of Bethulia, put on beautiful clothes and jewelry and entered the Assyrian camp, purporting to be a spy against the Jewish people.
		Thrown into chaos by the death of their leader, the Assyrian army was easily defeated by the Jews of Bethulia, who celebrated Judith's clever plot against Holofernes.
		Judith never remarried, but was celebrated for the rest of her life as the heroine of Bethulia.
	home.quicknet.nl /qn/prive/jdevos/mantis.htm (328 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : Judith of Bethulia : Plot
		Judith of Bethulia to stretch to four reels; Biograph's reprimands were so blistering that the director quit the studio, setting up his own independent operation.
		Historians have suggested that Griffith, impressed by the recently released Italian spectacular Quo Vadis, may have conceived Judith as an American "answer" to that film--an ill-advised decision, since the plotlines of the two properties bear precious little resemblance to each other.
		Biograph--whose fortunes diminished after Griffith's departure--reissued Judith of Bethulia in 1917 in an expanded version titled Her Condoned Sin, using outtakes that Griffith had wisely jettisoned back in 1914.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/18618/plot.jhtml (304 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Holidays: Women as Hanukkah Role Models
		He is very impressed with her beauty and her prediction that he will capture Bethulia.
		She covers the body with a blanket, puts the head in a sack, and returns through the sleeping camp to Bethulia.
		A midrash (in Hebrew) dealing with a variation of the Judith story was read on the Shabbat or Shabbatot of Hanukkah during the Middle Ages.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /holidays/Hanukkah/TO_Hanukkah_Themes/Wolfson_Women_843.htm (932 words)

	Judith of Bethulia
		The supporting cast serves the sparsely titled production well, with emotional performances from Mae Marsh and Robert Harron as endangered lovers, and among the many bit players who animate the work may be seen Lionel Barrymore, Harry Carey, Antonio Moreno and Lillian and Dorothy Gish as victims of the invaders.
		Judith of Bethulia is a very interesting biblical epic, starring several of Griffith's stable of actors at Biograph, such as Blanche Sweet (in the title role), Henry B. Walthall (as Holofernes) and Lillian Gish (as a woman with a baby).
		The scenes within the city are shot extremely well, with appropriate period detail.
	www.purchase-review.com /d_6302730791.html (519 words)

	Judith
		Then their strong men removed their camps in that day, and the army of the men of war was an hundred and seventy thousand footmen, and twelve thousand horsemen, beside the baggage, and other men that were afoot among them, a very great multitude.
		For all the inhabitants of Bethulia have their water thence; so shall thirst kill them, and they shall give up their city, and we and our people shall go up to the tops of the mountains that are near, and will camp upon them, to watch that none go out of the city.
		After this time every one returned to his own inheritance, and Judith went to Bethulia, and remained in her own possession, and was in her time honourable in all the country.
	www.electrosnap.com /Frames2/Apocrypha/Judith.htm (10223 words)

	The return Judiths after Bethulia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The painting return Judiths after Bethulia was created by Sandro Botticelli in 1472-1473.
		Botticelli created the painting return Judiths after Bethulia in the format 31 x 24 cm.
		Information about the picture return Judiths after Bethulia in an other language: Deutsch.
	www.wooop.com /renaissance/Sandro_Botticelli/return_Judiths_after_Bethulia (77 words)

	Plot Summary for Judith of Bethulia (1914) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The army captures all the territory to the gates of Bethulia, including its well and the women who were outside the city walls.
		Then, Holfernes is content to lay a patient siege and wait until lack of water and food forces the surrender of Bethulia.
		As the town's plight worsens and prayers don't seem to work, Judith, a well-loved widow of Bethulia, hatches a plan.
	poll.imdb.com /Plot?0004181 (201 words)

	The Mozart Project: K. 118/74c
		Before the action begins, the Israelites have taken refuge in the mountain stronghold of Bethulia to resist a siege by an Assyrian host.
		Judith, who overhears this, interrupts her mourning for Manasses to upbraid both Ozias and the inhabitants of Bethulia: "You are all equally guilty.
		Everything comes to an end as the people of Bethulia sing a chorus of praise to their god.
	www.mozartproject.org /compositions/k_118__.html (929 words)

	A Real Sharp Doll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Judith was a wealthy widow who lived in the town of Bethulia.
		She was respected, since the elders came to her home when she summoned them, and like many biblical women, she was reknowned for her beauty.
		Judith didn't have to redeem herself in the eyes of contemporaries, as she was hailed as a hero upon returning to Bethulia.
	www.angelfire.com /oh3/Karissa/judith.html (708 words)

	Yehudit \| Chabad.org > Holidays > Chanukah
		The town of Bethulia, in the land of Judea, came under siege by Holofernes, a mighty Syrian-Greek general, at the head of a huge army.
		Now he was determined to crush the rebellion of the town of Bethulia, whose inhabitants refused to recognize the oppresive rule of the Syrians.
		It was a wonderful victory, and it was the G-dfearing and brave daughter of Yochanan the High Priest, the father of the Hasmonean family, that saved the city of Bethulia and all its inhabitants.
	www.chabad.org /article.asp?aid=103019 (1892 words)

	Kino Film: Judith Of Bethulia / Home Sweet Home
		Even though Judith's $32,000 budget is infintessimal by today's standards, in 1913 it was enough for the heads of Biograph to call for the director's resignation.
		In spite of the fact that Judith cost Griffith his job, it was a great success and a boon to his reputation.
		Captain Holofernes lays siege to the fortified village but is unsuccessful in permeating its immense stone walls.
	www.kino.com /video/item.php?film_id=131 (348 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Judith of Bethulia
		Conservative Biograph Studios, having galloped to prominence on the coattails of their star director D.W. Griffith, refused to allow Griffith to make any film longer than two reels.
		Ignoring this edict, Griffith permitted his Biblical epic Judith of Bethulia to stretch to four reels; Biograph's reprimands were so blistering that the director quit the studio, setting up his own independent operation.
		While of great historical value, Judith of Bethulia is, truth to tell, not one of Griffith's best efforts.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/18618/plot.jhtml (273 words)

	The Book of Judith
		Jdt 4:5 And possessed themselves beforehand of all the tops of the high mountains, and fortified the villages that were in them, and laid up victuals for the provision of war: for their fields were of late reaped.
		Jdt 7:13 For all the inhabitants of Bethulia have their water thence; so shall thirst kill them, and they shall give up their city, and we and our people shall go up to the tops of the mountains that are near, and will camp upon them, to watch that none go out of the city.
		Jdt 16:24 And the house of Israel lamented her seven days: and before she died, she did distribute her goods to all them that were nearest of kindred to Manasses her husband, and to them that were the nearest of her kindred.
	members.tripod.com /EsotericTexts/Judith.BookOf.htm (10360 words)

	Judith and Holofernes - Olga's Gallery
		Judith, a rich and beautiful widow from the town of Bethulia, was respected for her devotion to God.
		She managed to deceive Holofernes with a false report about the situation in the besieged town.
		Botticelli Judith's Return to Bethulia; Discovery of the Body of Holofernes.
	www.abcgallery.com /religion/judith.html (116 words)

	Miscellaneous Wills Letter P - Robert Piercey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		I give devise and bequeath all my lands with dwelling house and other erections thereon to my wife Mary Bethulia Piercey as long as she remains unmarried and on her marriage or death to my son William Piercey.
		I give and bequeath to my wife Mary Bethulia Piercey for her own use and disposal all the furniture in my dwelling house.
		I appoint my son William Piercey and my wife Mary Bethulia Piercey as executors to this will and testament giving them power if they should deem necessary to sell or dispose of part of my land for the support of my wife Mary Bethulia Piercey.
	ngb.chebucto.org /Wills/piercey-robert.shtml (498 words)

	The Book of Judith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		For all the inhabitants of Bethulia have their water there; so thirst will kill them and they will give up their city, and we and our people will go up to the tops of the mountains nearby and will camp on them to watch so that none can go out of the city.
		For we have heard of your wisdom and your policies, and it is reported across all the earth, that you alone are excellent in all the kingdom, and mighty in knowledge, and wonderful in feats of war.
		And Judith went to Bethulia and remained in her own possession; and during her time she was held in honor throughout the country.
	www.worldenglishbible.org /bible/web/Judith.htm (8209 words)

	USCCB - NAB - Judith 7
		They encamped at the spring in the valley near Bethulia, and spread out in breadth toward Dothan as far as Balbaim, and in length from Bethulia to Cyamon, which faces Esdraelon.
		On the second day Holofernes led out all his cavalry in the sight of the Israelites who were in Bethulia.
		He reconnoitered the approaches to their city and located their sources of water; these he seized, stationing armed detachments around them, while he himself returned to his troops.
	www.nccbuscc.org /nab/bible/judith/judith7.htm (1011 words)

	Iudeth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		1 Holofernes besiegeth Bethulia, 7 and stoppeth the water from them.
		4 She prayeth God to giue her strength 8 She cut off his head while hee slept: 10 And returned with it to Bethulia: 17 They saw it, and commend her.
		23 Shee died at Bethulia a widow of great honour.
	www.ccel.org /bible/kjv-apoc/Judith (437 words)

	Judith of Bethulia (1914) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Plot Summary: Bethulia stands outside ancient Jerusalem, guarding its gate.
		From the Apocrypha story, a poetical tragedy by Thomas Bailey Aldrich and the theatrical version, Holofernes (played by Henry Walthall) leads his Assyrian army against the walled Judean city of Bethulia.
		The Assyrians decide, after failing to penetrate the wall, to parch the Judeans into submission.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0004181 (348 words)

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