The story goes that Judith was a beautiful Jewish widow living in the village of Bethulia. Like all of Israel, her village was threatened by King Nebuchadnezzar, who sent his Assyrian general Holofernes to destroy it. The Assyrians were unspeakably bad. The kind of conquerors who would flay an entire army, then paste the human skins outside their palaces like wallpaper advertising how badass they were. No one messed with Assyrians if they could help it. The Jews of Bethulia are rightly terrified, but their fear annoys Judith, so she sneaks into the enemy camp with her maidservant Abra and
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