ATDTDA (17): Jephthah (466.6)

[Otto]

That's Paradiso 5.64ff:

Non prendan li mortali il voto a ciancia;
siate fedeli, e a ciò far non bieci,
come Ieptè a la sua prima mancia;

	Let mortals never take a vow in jest;
Be faithful and not blind in doing that,
As Jephthah was in his first offering,

http://dante.ilt.columbia.edu/new/comedy/index.html

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Die Menschen sollen nicht zum Spott geloben:
Seid treu und handelt nicht in Übereilung,
Wie Jephta tat bei seinem ersten Opfer.

(Reclam, Ditzingen 1990, p. 285)

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2007/9/5, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
> Just happened to read a review of new translation of Dante's Paradiso
> (I think in the New yorker) where the story of Jephthah is discussed
> at some length. the moral is don't make snap judgements/promises.
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> Rich
>
> On 9/4/07, Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > "Jephthah runs this Christer road-ranch out on Cherry Creek, and this is how he gathers his flock.  I thought he was off tonight, so I -- It's all right Jeff!"  Slowing down.  "Don't shoot!"  (p. 466)
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> > Jephthah is a character in the Old Testament who served as one of the Judges in Israel for a period of six years (Judges 12:7) between the conquest of Canaan and the first king. Jephthah lived in Gilead and was a member of the Tribe of Manasseh. He is also called Jephthah in other bible references. His father's name was also Gilead.
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> > [...]
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> > Before leaving for the war, he vowed unto God that if he were to return home victorious, "whoever is the first to come through the doors of my house" to meet him would be sacrificed to God "as a burnt offering". He was victorious, and return he did, but he was met by his daughter, an only child. It is written that after a period of isolated mourning "she returned to her father and he carried out his vow with her which he had vowed" (Judges 11:39). [...]
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> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jephtha
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> > http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=222&letter=J
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> > [...] There is nothing positive about the story of Jephthah.  Except it is a heartrending model of what not to do.
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> > http://www.cresourcei.org/jephthah.html
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