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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Hancock, Rebecca S. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
Collection:Emerging scholars.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.