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Esther and the Politics of Negotiation : Public and Private Spaces and the Figure of the Female Royal Counselor /
Was Esther unique--an anomaly in patriarchal society? Conventionally, scholars see ancient Israelite and Jewish women as excluded from the public world, their power concentrated instead in the domestic realm and exercised through familial structures. Rebecca S. Hancock demonstrates, in contrast, tha...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2014
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| Series: | Emerging scholars.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Introduction to the problem : Esther in scholarship
- Theoretical problems with the language of public and private
- Narrative representatives of space, gender, and women's roles in Esther
- Esther and representations of Persian royal women
- Esther the politician : traditions of counseling women
- Conclusion.