Whose Story? Which Sacrifice?: On the Story of Jephthah’s Daughter
The story of Jephthah and his daughter (Judg. 11:29-40) is a peculiar and problematic text. This article explores the question of the accountability for the sacrificial act with which the story culminates, and which provokes sharp disapproval in certain quarters, especially because of its gender bia...
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2021
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Open theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages: 331-344 |
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Genesis 22
B Jephthah’s daughter B philosophical–theological interpretation B Gender B Sacrifice B Iphigenia in Aulis B Judges 11:29–40 B rhetoric analysis |
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| 520 | |a The story of Jephthah and his daughter (Judg. 11:29-40) is a peculiar and problematic text. This article explores the question of the accountability for the sacrificial act with which the story culminates, and which provokes sharp disapproval in certain quarters, especially because of its gender bias. Applying the hermeneutical framework of René Girard and his distinction between sacrifice in Greek mythology (divinity in charge) and sacrifice in Judeo-Christian revelation (everyone responsible for his/her actions), I investigate the question: Is Jephthah’s daughter a mute puppet in a drama staged by her tyrannical father, or perhaps fate, or is she rather a woman who is responsible for her own actions and accountable only to herself? The answer is twofold: she is a woman fully responsible for herself; however, the responsibility for her premature and violent death is shared by her father, herself, and the biblical author-redactor. After identifying Jephthah’s daughter as a person responsible for her own actions, I aim to overcome the dialectic of "the text of terror" (post-structuralist interpretation) and the search for "herstory" (neoliberal interpretation). I suggest that in her powerlessness against patriarchal tyranny, Jephthah’s daughter nonetheless exerts power and authority in condemning the existing power structures. Without approving any form of sacrifice, reading the story through a lens of powerful powerlessness can help us discern different forms of power and, ultimately, reject the aggression and violence that has dominated our world to this very day. | ||
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