Jephtha's Vow Reconsidered
| Autor: | Susan Staves |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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| Zdroj: | Huntington Library Quarterly. 71:651-669 |
| ISSN: | 1544-399X 0018-7895 |
| DOI: | 10.1525/hlq.2008.71.4.651 |
| Popis: | Eighteenth-century debates over the story of Jephtha illuminate contemporary biblical hermeneutics. Deists used it as an example of religious fanaticism. Learned Anglican and Presbyterian commentators, responding to such skeptical critiques, used other modern textual critical approaches, sometimes to deny that Jephtha had made his daughter a burnt offering, sometimes to acknowledge that the interpretive problems were too difficult to admit of certainty. While scholarly, orthodox Christian commentators wrote about the sacrifice of Jephtha’s daughter with calm detachment, the deists used strong language of revulsion to arouse outrage. Handel found musical means to express the intense affects individuals might feel in the immediate circumstances of the story, as well as the theological uncertainty and distress that contemporary biblical criticism of Jephtha had intensified. |
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