Amanda Walls

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Preprint Article Version 1 This version is not peer-reviewed Version 1 : Received: 9 September 2024 / Approved: 10 September 2024 / Online: 10 September 2024 (10:50:54 CEST) Wegrzynowicz, A. K.; Walls, A. C.; Godfrey, M.; Beckley, A. Insights into Perimenopause: A Survey of Perceptions, Opinions on Treatment, and Potential Approaches. Preprints 2024, 2024090786. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202409.0786.v1 Wegrzynowicz, A. K.; Walls, A. C.; Godfrey, M.; Beckley, A.

1. Introduction The story of Jephthah’s daughter in Judges 11:34–40 is remarkably enigmatic. It provides a terse etiology for an otherwise unattested holiday in honor of a young woman who died as a votive offering. The event would have been especially significant to the women of Israel, whose annual attendance the story states is expected. This was the only female-specific public event in biblical Israel. Scholars know very little about it.