Historical inaccuracies—Besides such theological contradictions there are also many historical errors in the Apocrypha. The book Judith is riddled with historical inaccuracies. In Judith 1:1 Nebuchadnezzar is said to rule “over the Assyrians in the great city of Nineveh, in the days of Arphaxad, who ruled over the Medes in Ecbatana.” Nebuchadnezzar ruled over the Babylonians in the great city of Babylon, not over the Assyrians in the great city of Nineveh. Nineveh had been destroyed by king Nabopolassar,
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