Yahudith, a beautiful and daring widow who urges her countrymen to adhere to Mosaic law and to engage the enemy Assyrians, goes with her loyal, if recalcitrant, maid Abra to the camp of Assyrian General Holophernes. Judith gains his trust, enters his tent while he is sleeping, and decapitates him.
Ever–pure, Judith remains a faithful widow and never remarries.
The Book of Judith is not accepted by the Jews as part of the Jewish canon, as the details do not jive with the historical record. However, interestingly, the Book is accepted in the Septuagint (see below 250 BCE) and by the Roman Catholic canon in the Old Testament. (The Eastern Orthodox Church doctrinally accepts all the Septuagint as Old Testament.)
This means, ironically, that the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches accept at face value the saga and chronological details of a legendary Jewish heroine as accurate Jewish history, while the Jews do not.