Jephthah’s Daughter – Additional Resources

Recommended Reading:

• Mieke Bal, Death and Dissymetry (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1988)
• Maria E. Doerfler,  Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son: The Death of Children in Late Antiquity. 1st ed. Vol. 8. University of California Press, 2019)
• Esther Fuchs, Marginalization, Ambiguity, Silencing: The Story of Jephthah’s Daughter (Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 5, no. 1: 35–45, 1989)

Articles: (click to access)

• How Christian theology and practice are being shaped by trauma studies, by Shelley Rambo

Art: (click to access)

• Jephthah Sacrifices His Daughter, anonymous artists
• The Sacrifice of Jephthah’s Daughter, 1722, by Massimiliano Soldani
• Jephathah’s Daughter, 1780-1810, by Benjamin West
• Jephthah’s daughter contemplating her virginity and her imminent death, surrounded by woeful attendants with musical instruments. Engraving by P. Lightfoot, 1846, after H. O’Neil