Jephthes, sive Votum

About the show

After Jephthah vows to sacrifice whoever first greets him on his return from war, his daughter Iphis meets him. Jephthah believes the vow binds him, while a priest and his wife urge him to spare her. Iphis moves from fear to acceptance, first framing her death as filial duty and then as Christ-like; she rejects Jephthah’s offer to die in her place and is sacrificed.