Riverstone loosely bases this story on the Old Testament book of Judith - it features seduction, betrayal, and bloody violence, the kind of thing that prim Sunday school teachers generally leave unmentioned, assuming they know these stories at all. This interpretation goes way past R. Judith and her sidekick Esther (who get an Old Testament book of her own) appear here as curvy, top-heavy, and averse to all clothing. Holophrenes and his army appear...