Jephté

Jephté was one of the Judges d' Israël.

Biblical account

Source: Book of the Judges, chapters 10,11,12

Before attacking the Ammonites, it made the imprudent wish offer to God, in Holocauste, the first nobody who would come to greet it after his victory. It was his/her only daughter who ran the first ahead of of him. The unhappy father had to achieve his wish and his/her daughter granted the sacrifice.

Artistic adaptation

Jephté inspired by the oratorios bearing this title with Italian Giacomo Carissimi (before 1650) and with English of adoption Georg Friedrich Haendel (1752).

Montéclair took as a starting point the topic developed by Pellegrin for the first opera crowned history (1732).

George Buchanan wrote a tragedy (in Latin) on this subject. It was translated five times into French between 1570 and 1630. The girl of Jephté is called there " Iphis" : the valorous one. This name thus points out that of Iphigénie and watch the proximity of two heroins.

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