Footnote 3 – Judith

The name, yhwdyt, is generally understood to be Hebrew for “Jewess” and so would be an appropriate or allegorical name for the heroine. However, certainty on this matter is dened us because Esau’s Hittite wife had the same name (Genesis 26:34), and the male equivalent of the name, Jehudi, was borne by a foreigner in Jeremiah 36:14.