Judith Nelsen Keep (March 24, 1944 – September 14, 2004) was a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
Early life and education
Born March 24, 1944, Omaha, Nebraska, young Judith Keep went to college in California. In 1966, she received her B.A. degree in Humanities and Literature from Scripps College in Claremont, California. After graduation, she moved to San Diego and taught English at the Bishop's School in La Jolla. She then enrolled at the University of San Diego School of Law, where she received her J.D. degree in 1970, graduating summa cum laude.
Professional career
After her graduation from law school, Keep served as a Municipal Court Judge in San Diego from 1976 to 1980, in private practice from 1973 to 1976, and as a staff attorney for Defenders, Inc. from 1971 to 1973. In the 1970s, Keep organized a casual group with other female attorneys called the Old Girls Club.
Federal judicial service
Nominated to the bench of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California of California by President Jimmy Carter, Judge Keep became a federal judge in 1980.
The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded from Jewish texts and assigned by Protestants to the Apocrypha. The book contains numerous historical anachronisms, which is why many scholars now accept it as non-historical; it has been considered a parable or perhaps the first historical novel.
The name Judith (Hebrew: יְהוּדִית, Modern Yehudit, Tiberian Yəhûḏîṯ ; "Praised" or "Jewess") is the feminine form of Judah.
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Original language
It is not clear whether the Book of Judith was originally written in Hebrew or in Greek. The oldest extant version is the Septuagint and might either be a translation from Hebrew or composed in Greek. Details of vocabulary and phrasing point to a Greek text written in a language modeled on the Greek developed through translating the other books in the Septuagint. The extant Hebrew language versions, whether identical to the Greek, or in the shorter Hebrew version, are medieval. The Hebrew versions name important figures directly such as the Seleucid king Antiochus Epiphanes, thus placing the events in the Hellenistic period when the Maccabees battled the Seleucid monarchs. The Greek version uses deliberately cryptic and anachronistic references such as "Nebuchadnezzar", a "King of Assyria," who "reigns in Nineveh," for the same king. The adoption of that name, though unhistorical, has been sometimes explained either as a copyist's addition, or an arbitrary name assigned to the ruler of Babylon.
Judith is a 1923 Dutch silent film directed by Theo Frenkel.
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Judith is a feminine given name derived from the Hebrew name יְהוּדִית or Yehudit, meaning "She will be praised" or "woman of Judea". Judith appeared in the Old Testament as the wife of Esau and in the Apocryphal Book of Judith.
The name was among the top 50 most popular given names for girls born in the United States between 1936 and 1956. Its popularity has since declined. It was the 893rd most popular name for baby girls born in the United States in 2012, down from 74th place in 1960.
Name variants
Alternative forms of the name Judith include: