Editing Jephthah (section)

== Cultural influence ==
[[File:Alexandre Cabanel - The Daughter of Jephthah (1879, Oil on canvas).JPG|thumb|upright|''The Daughter of Jephthah'', by [[Alexandre Cabanel]] (1879).]]
The story of Jephthah has influenced a number of literary works.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hanusa|first=Ruth L.|date=1999|title=Killing the daughter: Judges' Jephthah and The Jew of Malta's Barabas.|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/notes-and-queries-14716941?cc=us&lang=en&|journal=Notes and Queries|volume=46|issue=2|pages=199–200|doi=10.1093/nq/46-2-199|access-date=2020-05-03|archive-date=2021-08-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210824003515/https://global.oup.com/academic/product/notes-and-queries-14716941?cc=us&lang=en&|url-status=dead}}</ref>

*''[[Jephte (Carissimi)|Historia di Jephta]]'', an oratorio by [[Giacomo Carissimi]].
*''[[Jephthes, sive Votum]]'', a [[tragedy]] by [[George Buchanan]] (1554).
*''[[Jeptha of Offerbelofte]]'', a play by [[Joost van den Vondel]] (1659), a [[Dionysian imitatio|reworking]] in Dutch of the play by Buchanan.
*''[[Two Treatises of Government]]'', A political and theological book [[John Locke]] (1689) challenging the divine right of kings, using Jephthah to demonstrate his "appeal to heaven" for changing government by the use of force in the absence of an earthly authority to petition to.  See Book II, section 21.  This concept is extremely important in first amendment jurisprudence, and is one of the strongest arguments against temporary restraining orders that enjoin speech, also known as a [[prior restraint]], because of how dangerous they are.  See for example ''Milk Wagon Drivers v. Meadowmoor Dairies, Inc.'' 312 U.S. 287,293 (1941).
*''Jephté'', a tragedy by [[Charles Piroye]] (1703). 
*''[[Jephté]]'', an opera by [[Michel Pignolet de Montéclair]] (1732).
*''Jephtha'', an oratorio by [[Maurice Greene (composer)|Maurice Greene]] (1737).
*''[[Jephtha (Handel)|Jephtha]]'', an oratorio by [[George Frideric Handel]] (1751).
*''[[Jephtas Gelübde]]'', an opera by [[Meyerbeer]] (1812).
*''Jephtha''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://imslp.org/wiki/Jephtha_(Hewitt,_John_Hill)|title=Jephtha (Hewitt, John Hill) - IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download|website=imslp.org|access-date=Sep 19, 2020}}</ref> an oratorio by [[John Hill Hewitt|John H. Hewitt]] (1846).
*''The Vow'', a one-act opera by based on the story [[Colin McAlpin]] (1915).
* The story of Jephthah and his daughter is the subject of [[Lion Feuchtwanger]]'s historical novel, ''Jefta und seine Tochter'' (1957), English translation, ''Jephta and His Daughter'', also known as ''Jephthah and His Daughter'', published 1958
* In ''[[Hamlet]]'', Polonius tells Hamlet "If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter I love passing well."
* The 2015 winner of the [[BP Portrait Award]], ''Annabelle and Guy'' by Matan Ben-Cnaan was inspired by the story of Jephthah and his daughter.<ref name="BP Portrait Award 2015">{{cite web|title=BP Portrait Award 2015 - First Prize|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/bp-portrait-award/exhibition/prize-winners-entries/first-prize.php|publisher=National Portrait Gallery|access-date=18 June 2015}}, [http://www.npg.org.uk National Portrait Gallery]</ref>
* The 2008 novel ''Ever'' by [[Gail Carson Levine]] is based on the story of Jephthah's daughter; Judges 11:34 is quoted in the foreword, and the plot follows the story of a girl in a Bronze Age Middle Eastern–inspired society whose father promises to sacrifice to his god the first person who congratulates him on his wife's recovery from an illness.
* The song "Burn, Baby Burn" by [[The Residents]] (from their album ''[[Wormwood: Curious Stories from the Bible]]'') is inspired by the story of Jephthah.