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Meyerbeer's first opera, Jephtas Gelübde, has a libretto by the German academic Alois Schreiber, based on a Biblical theme taken from chapters 11-12 of the Book of Judges. The story centres on the vow the ancient Israelite Judge made to God in return for victory over the enemy: ""If thou wilt give the Ammonites into my hand, then whatever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious . . . I will offer him up for a burnt offering"". The first person he was fatefull...

Operas --- Opera --- Meyerbeer, Giacomo, --- Jephthah --- Jefta --- Jeftes --- Jephte --- Jephtha --- Jephthah, --- Jeptha --- Beer, Jakob Liebmann Meyer