Ozias said to her, “Blessed are you, daughter, in the sight of the Most High God, above all the women upon the earth; and blessed is the Lord God, who created the heavens and the earth, who directed you to cut off the head of the prince of our enemies.
⛓ Read Judith 13 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Uzziah blesses Judith, 'Blessed are you... above all women on earth' (Judith 13:18), the closest verbal and contextual parallel to the angel/Elizabeth's beatitude over Mary. A deuterocanonical text celebrating a woman through whom God delivers Israel; high distinctiveness.
High confidenceElizabeth's acclamation matches Uzziah's blessing of Judith, 'Blessed are you above all women on earth' (Judith 13:18), the nearest verbal parallel for the woman-through-whom-God-delivers beatitude. A strong deuterocanonical recurrence.
High confidence