 Judah recognized them and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I wouldn’t give her to my son Shelah.”

The story of Jephthah's daughter in Book of Judges begins as an archetypal biblical hagiography of a hero.Jephthah is the son of a marginal woman, a prostitute (zonah), and as such he is vulnerable.He lives in his father's house, but when his father dies, his half-brothers reject him.