Men and women alike are unnamed.
Daughter of jephthah name. And this daughter of Jephthah will be named again and she will teach us about all that we were given which is all that she had longed forpeace and wholeness love and participation in. The Daughter of Jephthah. Jephthahs daughter asked for a two month reprieve and Jephthah granted her request Judges 1136-38.
Lets set the background. Four days out of every year the women of Israel go to visit her there and they have a happy time together. It portrays Jephthah and Phinehas as sabotaging the task that has been entrusted to them.
And when his wifes sons grew up they thrust Jephthah out and said to him You shall not inherit in our fathers house. But we lament what happened to her. Instead of helping to impart life they take it.
Daughters in the Bible. The Order of the Eastern Star refers to her as Adah From wikipedia. A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia.
Indeed this tale of a nameless young woman with scarcely a voice of her own and with her violent fate precipitated and carried out by her own father is surely one of the most horrifying tales in the whole Bible. He is the son of Gilead and a prostitute and his half-brothers drives him away. 2 And Gileads wife also bore him sons.
Despite the possibilities of comprehending the narrative as part of the propaganda of the Book of Judges the story of Jephthahs daughter remains enigmatic and disturbing to todays readers. Accordingly the worst fate one could experience was to have ones seed cut off and name destroyed. Both Phinehas and Jephthah are liable for the death of the latters daughter.