Why Jephthah's Daughter Weeps

Margaret Murray Talbot, Ph.D. (2020), as principal and founder of CPQeditorial, provides freelance editing support to academic writers in a variety of disciplines and is adjunct instructor in the Certificate in Jewish-Christian Relationship program at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

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1 Introduction

 1 Bat-Yiphtach’s Story

 2 How the Book Proceeds



2 Characterizations of Bat-Yiphtach as Woman, Young Woman, Child

 1 Seeing Women in Judges: The Dominance of the Gender Binary

 2 Focus on Bat-Yiphtach Scholarship: Woman and Child Characterizations

 3 Conclusion



3 Theories and Methods for Transitioning Children

 1 Childhood Studies: An Overview

 2 Childhood Studies and Biblical Studies

 3 Conclusion



4 Menarche, Menstruation, and Moons: Bat-Yiphtach as Transitioning Child

 1 בתולה and בתולים in the Hebrew Bible and in Childist Scholarship

 2 Menstruation in Biblical Scholarship

 3 Adolescence and Menarche in Childhood Studies

 4 A Tower, Two Moons, and Bat-Yiptach’s Lament: Judges 11:29–40

 5 Conclusion: Child-Oriented Exegesis of Judges 11:29–40



5 Relational Assemblages and Bat-Yiphtach’s Agency

 1 Agency in Childhood Studies

 2 Agency as Relational: Assemblages and Extensions

 3 Previous Assessments of Bat-Yiphtach’s Agency

 4 What Agency? Bat-Yiphtach’s Bleeding Body Assemblage

 5 Conclusion



6 Conclusion … and More Questions

 1 The Trajectory of My Research, Exegetical Observations, and Arguments

 2 Limitations of My Research and Future Research Opportunities



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