Judith is a biblical anglo-saxon poetry written during the middle ages in England. the story talks about the beheading of holfernes, the assyrian military leader. This paraphrase is bloody and involves sex and shows Judith as smart, has courage, and powerful. Judith is considered a female hero , she was invited to a fiest hosted at Holofernes tent. holofernes who got drunk and tried to rape Judith but he passed out before that happened. She took his sword and shopped his head off.