{"id":55743,"date":"2019-05-19T13:56:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T10:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=55743"},"modified":"2022-12-11T14:49:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T12:49:54","slug":"the-fate-of-jephthahs-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-fate-of-jephthahs-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fate Of Jephthah\u2019s Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[366,575,627],"acf":{"old_id":"55743","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"222","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Did he - or didn\u2019t he? The commentators find a less gruesome possibility","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the failure of diplomacy to settle the Israelite-Ammonite crisis (vs.12-28), Jephthah was inspired to prepare for battle (29). In so doing, he made a vow: \u201cIf [God] will deliver the Ammonites into my hands, whatever comes out of the door of my house to greet me when I return, whole, from Ammon, will belong to the Lord; I will offer it as a sacrifice\u201d (30-31). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The upshot is that he is greeted by his daughter, an only child (34).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While we are told three things about her; namely, \u201cshe never knew a man,\u201d \u201cshe became an ordinance (<em>c<\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hoq<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) in Israel,\u201d and \u201cfor four days a year, Israelite maidens would lament her\u201d (39-40), her actual fate is unclear. The Talmud and Midrash described Jephthah\u2019s vow as \u201cinappropriate\u201d (<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shelo ke-hogen<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) and maintained that he was obliged to sacrifice his daughter. They also addressed the question of why he did not simply annul his vow. Since only the high priest can annul the vow of a ruler, they posited a standoff between Jephthah and Phineas, neither of whom would defer to the other (Taanit 4a; Bereishit Rabba<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">60:3).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This view held sway until the 12th century, when an alternative interpretation was advanced. Abraham Ibn Ezra (cited by Nac\u1e25manides to Leviticus 27: 29) specified that Jephthah\u2019s vow was to be parsed as follows: \u201cWhatsoever emerges from my doorway \u2026 will be dedicated to God, OR offered as a sacrifice\u201d (31). Rather than sacrifice his daughter, Jephthah had her secluded and she remained a virgin her entire life. David Kim\u1e25i offered the identical parsing in the name of his father, Joseph, and it was adopted by Gersonides and Abrabanel, while Nac\u1e25manides rejected it out of hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Image: James Tissot, <em>Jephthah&#8217;s Daughter<\/em>, c. 1896-1902.<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":55755,"id":55755,"title":"Jepthah's Daughters","filename":"jud11-Tissot_Jephthahs_Daughter.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud11-Tissot_Jephthahs_Daughter.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/jephthah-and-his-daughter-from-the-bible-on\/jepthahs-daughters\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jepthahs-daughters","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":55754,"date":"2019-05-19 13:13:49","modified":"2019-05-19 14:49:53","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1821,"height":3000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud11-Tissot_Jephthahs_Daughter-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud11-Tissot_Jephthahs_Daughter-182x300.jpg","medium-width":182,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud11-Tissot_Jephthahs_Daughter-622x1024.jpg","medium_large-width":622,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud11-Tissot_Jephthahs_Daughter-622x1024.jpg","large-width":622,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud11-Tissot_Jephthahs_Daughter.jpg","1536x1536-width":932,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud11-Tissot_Jephthahs_Daughter.jpg","2048x2048-width":1243,"2048x2048-height":2048,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud11-Tissot_Jephthahs_Daughter-728x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":728,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/jud11-Tissot_Jephthahs_Daughter-255x420.jpg","home_baner-width":255,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"The Fate Of Jephthah\u2019s Daughter","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"Did he - or didn\u2019t he? 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