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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...walks in the door in his house you guys know his daughter his daughter he's completely screwed now right so what does he do..."
Jiang recounts Jephthah's vow as a promise to offer the first person through his door if God grants victory, which results in his daughter becoming the fatal object of the vow.
Jiang explicitly endorses that reading of Beatrice: Jephthah made the promise rashly, so the right response was to forgive himself and not kill his daughter.
The student's initial answer is that violence against one's own flesh and blood is especially gruesome and therefore helps explain why killing the daughter seems worse than breaking the vow.
The student's first instinct is that Jephthah's daughter belongs in Purgatory because she is the victim of violence rather than the perpetrator, and may have been killed against her own will.
Jiang agrees that Jephthah's daughter is the hero of the biblical story because she willingly sacrifices herself so her father can keep the vow, and he says that nobility elevates her to paradise.
"...walks in the door in his house you guys know his daughter his daughter he's completely screwed now right so what does he do..."
"...it rashly right so just forgive yourself and not kill your daughter man yes so i think that we should understand this by looking..."
"like the violence of it all and also because they are like your own flesh and blood so you know that"
"because it's flesh and blood that's why it's so bad that's why he is like the key example that i understand but i'm saying..."
"um has not known jesus but um not knowing how she has acted in her own life i'm just assuming that she has not..."
"the daughter the daughter but why the daughter um because she understands the importance of the vow she wants to keep it despite that..."
"it's clear the daughter who is the hero of the story because she was willing to sacrifice herself to ensure her father keeps keeps..."
"would do yeah why couldn't he just marry his own daughter or like another sister because he made a"
"bible well yeah she he kills the daughter okay according to features is this good or bad no it's not a gray area what..."
"...you make that out of god you get to kill your daughter don't keep that vow man so this is a paradox right someone..."
"...like compared to breaking a vow like if you kill your daughter you're gonna end up like farther away from god you're gonna end..."
"...okay the problem is that jetfa um had to kill the daughter okay let's just say okay the person coming in the door is..."
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