A Daughter in Israel: Celebrating Bat Jephthah(Judg. 11.39d-40)
This article offers a new hypothesis regarding Judg. 11.39d-40, a reference to an otherwise unknown festival celebrated by the ‘daughters of Israel’ in memory of the sacrifice of Jepththah’s daughter. After a survey of feminist and non-feminist speculations as to the nature of the festival, evidence from Greek heroine cults in which daughters are sacrificed for the good of the state is adduced as the closest parallel in ancient literature. The article concludes with some feminist theological considerations occasioned by the patriotic and military nature of the festival.
We have modeled the AntSim case study for the GraBats 2008 tool contest with the Fujaba tool. It turned out that for this problem the moving of single ants is the most frequent operation. The execution time for this operation dominates the overall execution time. This paper will report how we addressed the move ant problem using dedicated Fujaba features and which performance we have achieved.