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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 |
| Summary: | 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, that because of the patrimonial character of ancient Jewish society, the state was often organized along familial lines. The presence of women in roles of queen consort or queen is therefore a key political, and not simply domestic, feature. Attention to the narrative of Esther and comparison with Hellenistic and Persian historiography depicting "wise women" acting in royal contexts reveals that Esther is in fact representative of a wider tradition. Women could participate in political life structured along familial and kinship lines. Further, Hancock's demonstration qualifies the bifurcation of "public" (male-dominated) and "private" (female-dominated) space in the ancient Near East. |
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| Item Description: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University. Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-151) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781451469868 |
| Access: | Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |