The compositional / narrative structure of Judith : a Greimassian perspective

The compositional structure of the Judith narrative has evoked the reaction of many OT scholars who focus on Judith. some scholars allege that part one is a flatter in style and that the book is unbalanced in structure. Other scholars have made insightful contribution against these allegetions on Judith. This article endeavours to bring a unique contribution against these allegetions, by applying narrative analysis to the narratives, as informed by the Greimassian semiotic approach. The appeal here is to discover how these allegetions robed Judith of the recegnition it desereves as a briliant story. The application of a narrative analysis based on a Greimassian approach reavels that Judith is a well-structured and balances story containing a noticeable transformation. Subsequently, this article concludes that the two parts of the story are complementary to each other rather than imbalanced or claimed.