Judith and History

READING ACTS: Is Judith Historically Inaccurate? (Phil Long). This is what is known as a rhetorical question. Phil has a good overview of the historical problems with the book.

It's a good story though, so let's not over-think it. Imagine scholars two thousand years from now pondering what people in the twentieth century could have made of the historical inaccuracies in the Indiana Jones movies.

Background here.

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