Judith (disambiguation)

Judith may refer to:

People

• Judith (given name), female given name
  • Queen Judith (disambiguation), a number of women in the medieval period
  • Judith (Hebrew Bible), one of the wives of Esau in Genesis
  • Judith of Bavaria (died 843), Frankish queen
  • Judith of Friuli (fl. 881), daughter of Eberhard
  • Judith of Flanders (c. 843 – c. 870), Princes of the Carolingian Franks, Queen of Wessex, Countess of Flanders
  • Judith of Schweinfurt (fl. 1003–1058), wife of Bretislaus I of Bohemia
  • Gudit (fl. 960), queen who sacked Axum, now in Ethiopia; also known as Judith or Yudit
  • Zewditu I (1876–1930), queen of Ethiopia whose name is sometimes erroneously Anglicised as "Judith"

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
• Judita, a 1501 Croatian epic poem by Marko Marulić
• "Judith", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1972 book Seventh Heaven
• Judith (novel), a 1978 novel by British author Brian Cleeve
• Judith, a 1978 novel by Aritha Van Herk
• 'Judith, a 1986 novel by Nicholas Mosley

Theater

• Judith (Hebbel) an 1841 tragic play by Friedrich Hebbel about the Biblical heroine
• Judith (Giraudoux), a 1931 play by Jean Giraudoux
• Judith, a 1962 adaption of the Giraudoux play by Christopher Fry

Art

• Judith (Giorgione), a painting by the Italian painter Giorgione, circa 1504
• Judith I, a painting more completely titled Judith and the Head of Holofernes, by Gustav Klimt, 1901.

Film and television

• Judith (1923 film), a 1923 Dutch film
• Judith (1966 film), a 1966 film set in Palestine shortly before the end of the British mandate
• Judith (TV series), a 2000 Swedish TV series

Music

• Judith (oratorio), a 1761 oratorio by Thomas Arne
• Judith, an 1888 work by Hubert Parry
• Judith (Serov), an 1863 opera by Alexander Serov
• Judith (Matthus), a 1984 opera by Siegfried Matthus
• Judith (ballet), a 1949 ballet by William Schuman

Fictional characters

• Judith Myers, a character in the Halloween films
• Judith Mossman (Half Life)
• Judith, a character in the 2008 video game Tales of Vesperia

Other uses

• 664 Judith, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
• Judith River, Montana

See also

• Judy (disambiguation)