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Oratorio by Handel (libretto by T Morell), first produced at Covent Garden, London, England, on 26 February 1752.
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She also leaves several brothers and sisters: Jepthah Burnett of Cardif, Wales, Jasper Burnett of Kingston, Jamaica, Ivan Burnett of Pickering, Ontario; Frederica Bygrave of Torrington, CT and Nellie Graham of London, England.
Winnifred A. (Burnett) Bramwell, 83 by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
Shuger's analysis of Buchanan's Jepthah and selected Magdalene narratives shows that pre-Reformation Christianity offered powerful models for female subjectivity, models that did not immediately migrate to secular literature.
The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity by Bruster, Douglas / Renaissance Quarterly
Contrast the rabbis' praise of Abraham with their general condemnation of Jepthah for killing his daughter to fulfill a pre-battle vow, as well as the religious leaders of the time for not finding a way out for him from his vow.
The real test of the Akedah: blind obedience versus moral choice by Bodoff, Lippman / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
 
 
 
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