ABSTRACT
Commentators have noticed similarities between the account of Jephthah’s vow and the sacrifice of his daughter in Judg 11:30–31, 34–40 and the two plays by the Greek playwright, Euripides, entitled Iphigenia among the Taurians (412 BCE) and Iphigenia in Aulis (405 BCE). I will analyze the similarities between the biblical text and the plays of Euripides to demonstrate that the biblical author was familiar with the plays of Euripides, as well as some other well-known Greek traditions. This would indicate that this Jephthah tradition has been placed into the Deuteronomistic History secondarily, after 400 bce.
