The biblical figure of Judith has played perhaps one of the more crucial roles in Croatian literature since its very beginnings. Marulic's Renaissance epic Judith (1521) takes the most important place in the corpus of selected works, followed by the works of contemporary authors: the novel Pokora (1998) by Paul Pavlicic, the play Prikazanje kreposna života, junačkih djela i blage smrti te uznesenja u povijest pobjednice Judit (2001) by Boris Senker, and the novels Judith (2001) by Miro Gavran and Marulov san (2019) by Dino Milinovic. Therefore, genre and poetic different narrative and dramatic works – ranging from the Renaissance epic to postmodern dramas and novels – were analyzed, so as models of intertextuality between older and newer Croatian literature. The analytical focus is also on differences in the reading of biblical prototext and literary transformation of the most famous work of our national heritage, as well as the moduses of cultural memory of the canonical author and his creation. The theoretical framework of the work is therefore related to the concepts of intertextuality and quotation, cultural memory, and memory, and the moduses of intertextual connections within an interesting corpus are also observed, in which the biblical heroine is at its core and the transformation of the Renaissance epic into a contemporary drama, love, crime or historical novel.