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    “. . . [Jephthah] did with her according to his vow that he had made” (Judges 11:39b1). The tragedy and confusion of the account of Jephthah lie in the fact that Jephthah, not only fulfilled his unfaithful vow, but the fulfillment of that unfaithful vow resulted in the killing of an innocent life, his daughter. To provide further background into the account, a brief summary of the problem text from the book of Judges will follow. Jephthah, a man appointed leader of Israel by the Gileadites2 to defend the nation against the Ammonites in wartime, made a vow to Yahweh. “And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace…

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    Jephthah's Vengeance

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    The vow that Jephthah made to the Lord in Judges 11 led to the sacrifice of his only daughter. In the book Death and Dissymmetry by Mieke Bal, he describes the vow as “guaranteeing primal violence.” Bal says that since Jephthah’s vow contained the word “whatever” it is used as a military tactic, which means he is trying to find a scapegoat if he is not able to defeat the Ammonites himself. By not having the sacrifice before him when he made the vow Jephthah can be viewed as being dishonest…

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    The Value of Death An Exploration of Human Sacrifice The question of human sacrifice in particular is useful and quite prevenient. In this essay I would like to explore the transformation of human sacrifice in the America’s from pre-conquest to the colonization of the Spanish. Human sacrifice is customarily viewed through a Eurocentric lens in which it is seen as heathenistic and barbaric. I would like to challenge this view and point out how it is in a way hypocritical to view the Mexica and…

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    When the Spanish first arrived in the New World they encountered two powerful empires: The Aztec and the Inca. However, the Inca and the Aztecs used different methods to control their empires, especially in the areas of economics and state religions. These methods, although different in structure, did contain some similarities. This demonstrates that empires can be equally powerful, but use different methods of organizing economic and religious systems. The Aztec economic system can be split…

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    For an individual to keep an oath, it may be an outcome of right or wrong. An individual may innocently keep their oath for a good outcome, but their result may be a bad omen. In this reading prompt Jephthah, Agamemnon, and Clytemnestra all struggle with their actions of promise and vengeance. Jephthah becoming a man of battle, has his difficulties separating right and wrong. He wanted to defeat battle and have the Ammonites be given to his hand, however he did not think about his consequence.…

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    Many cultural influences affected Jephthah. A cultural influence that positively affected him was the Israelite belief that leaders must lead an army to war. Jephthah went to war and defeated the Ammonites. A negative cultural influence that affected Jephthah was the belief that illegitimate children were not as valued as legitimate children. This led him to be kicked out of his house and move to Tob. In Tob, because he believed that he was not worthy, “worthless fellows collected around…

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    Mount Pelion Analysis

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    fell to the manipulations of the serpent, Gertrude falls to the gifts and flattery of Claudius, and thus, destroyed the Garden. Claudius represents the serpent as he was the variable that changed Denmark and Hamlet’s perception, thus opening their eyes to the world similar to how Adam and Eve gained knowledge as a result of eating the forbidden fruit. Act II: Jephthah Jephthah was a son of Gilead, but as his mother was a prostitute, his half-brothers drove him away. Later, when they needed his…

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    woman so he has his attendant run him through with his sword. The first attendant-assisted suicide in the Bible—but there will be more. JEPHTHAH In chapter 10 we read that after Tola judges Israel for 23 years and Jair judges for 22 years, “The children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD and worshiped Baal, Astartes as well as the gods of Syria, Sidon, Moab, Ammon and of Philistia and they forsook the LORD and served Him not. And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel…

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    Jesus is recorded in Luke 6:31 saying “do unto other as you would have them do unto you`. If one is presented with a dilemma that conflicts with their value system and they are operating on full swing values such as: They know what their values are. They cherish their values. They take a stand and declare their values. They act on their values. They continuously act on their values.They may be in jeopardy of losing their job but that would be the risk they are willing to take. An example that…

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    Baals and Asherahs. The Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim led the Israelites to cry out to the lord and he sent Othniel to deliver them. The next cycle yet again involved Israel’s disobedience to God because they did evil in the sight of the Lord. As a result they had to serve Eglon of Moab. God sent Ehud as Israel’s deliverer and Moab was subdued. The third cycle involves the Israelites being sold into the hands of king Jabin. In response to Israel’s outcry God used Deborah along with…

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