Throughout her reign, Queen Elizabeth I of England was paralleled with many figures from the Bible. While the analogies between Elizabeth and biblical figures such as Deborah the Judge, King Solomon, Queen Esther, King David, and Daniel the Prophet have received detailed attention in the existing scholarship, the analogy between Elizabeth and the Apocryphal widow Judith still remains on the fringes. Not only did Elizabeth compare herself to Judith, the analogy also appeared throughout the course of the queen's reign as a biblical precedent for dealing with the Roman Catholic threat. This article re-assesses the place of the Judith analogy within Elizabethan royal iconography by chronologically analysing of many of the surviving, primary source, comparisons between Judith and Elizabeth, and demonstrates that Judith was invoked consistently, and in varying media, as a model of a providentially blessed leader.

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伊丽莎白一世饰演的朱迪思：重新评估伊丽莎白时代皇室肖像中虚构寡妇的出现

在她的统治期间，英国女王伊丽莎白一世与圣经中的许多人物并驾齐驱。虽然伊丽莎白与法官底波拉、所罗门王、以斯帖王后、大卫王和先知但以理等圣经人物之间的类比在现有的学术研究中得到了详细的关注，但伊丽莎白与伪经寡妇朱迪思之间的类比仍然处于边缘. 伊丽莎白不仅将自己与朱迪思相提并论，在女王统治期间，这个比喻也被视为应对罗马天主教威胁的圣经先例。本文通过对朱迪思和伊丽莎白之间许多幸存的主要来源和比较的时间顺序分析，重新评估朱迪思类比在伊丽莎白时代皇家肖像画中的地位，并表明朱迪思一直被引用，