She risked everything and won everything. Behind Judith Rakers (50) lies a decade of total upheaval. The former "Tagesschau" anchor has closed the chapter on her old life.

Understanding the Context

She aligns her life compass ... The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book included in the Septuagint and the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Church of the East Old Testament of the Bible. It is excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to the apocrypha. The Book of Judith relates the story of God’s deliverance of the Jewish people.

Key Insights

This was accomplished “by the hand of a female”—a constant motif (cf. 8:33; 9:9, 10; 12:4; 13:4, 14, 15; 15:10; 16:5) meant to recall the “hand” of God in the Exodus narrative (cf. Ex 15:6). Judith is a feminine given name derived from the Hebrew name Yəhūdīt (יְהוּדִית), meaning "praised" and also more literally "Woman of Judea ". [2] It is the feminine form of Judah.

Final Thoughts

Judith is celebrated for her bravery, faith, and cunning, which led to the deliverance of her people from the threat of the Assyrian general Holofernes. The Book of Judith is believed to have been written around the 2nd century BC. The oldest extant text of Judith is the preservation of 15:1–7 inscribed on a third-century A.D. potsherd. Whatever the reasons, the rabbis did not count Judith among their scriptures, and the Reformation adopted that position. The early Church, however, held this book in high honor.

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