What is the best way to read the story of Jephthah and his daughters in Judges 11:29-40? This essay sees a combination of intertextuality and literary context as the best tools for a good understanding of the text. The author argues that Jephthah is presented as an inversion of Abraham.

Did Jephthah sacrifice his daughter or not? This article considers the account of Judges 11 within the context of the book as a whole, and cannot avoid concluding that he did. The author urges us to let the text stand as is, to see how badly Israel needed God's deliverance.

This is the second in a trilogy of articles which looks at Eli, Jephthah, and David as biblical examples of bad fathers. This article focuses on Jephthah and the promise he made which sealed the fate of his daughter, as recorded in Judges 11. Though this example the author tackles the issue of many fathers today being spiritually ignorant.