Copyright

Barbara Schmitz

Published On

2010-07-01

Page Range

pp. 71-80

Language

  • English

Print Length

9 pages

Holofernes's Canopy in the Septuagint

  • Barbara Schmitz (author)
Chapter of: The Sword of Judith: Judith Studies Across the Disciplines (pp. 71–80)

Contributors

Barbara Schmitz

(author)
Full professor of Old Testament Studies at TU Dortmund University

Barbara Schmitz's main research interest is on Jewish texts from the Hellenistic-Roman times. She wrote her PhD thesis on the function of prayer and speech in the Book of Judith and is currently working on a commentary on the Book of Judith for the series Herders Theologischer Kommentar zum Alten Testament. Her most recent book is on the Book of Kings. She is full professor of Old Testament Studies at the Universität Dortmund.