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Originally Posted by LadyFlynt  It has been noted that her sacrifice may not have been a blood one, but rather one of her life service. She would never marry, possibly live in isolation, possibly live purely in service to the Lord. Thus no children...for a woman, this was a life sacrifice and one that would make a father exceedingly sad. | Quote:
The Judaean writer Josephus actually believed that she was literally sacrificed, depicting the incident as follows:
“ But as he came back, he fell into a calamity no way correspondent to the great actions he had done; for it was his daughter that came to meet him; she was also an only child and a virgin: upon this Jephtha heavily lamented the greatness of his affliction, and blamed his daughter for being so forward in meeting him, for he had vowed to sacrifice her to God. However, this action that was to befall her was not ungrateful to her, since she should die upon occasion of her father's victory, and the liberty of her fellow citizens: she only desired her father to give her leave, for two months, to bewail her youth with her fellow citizens; and then she agreed, that at the forementioned time he might do with her according to his vow. Accordingly, when that time was over, he sacrificed his daughter as a burnt-offering, offering such an oblation as was neither conformable to the law nor acceptable to God, not weighing with himself what opinion the hearers would have of such a practice.
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