Feminist Companion to Esther

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Author: Athalya Brenner

ISBN-10: 0567084795

ISBN-13: 9780567084798

Category: Judith (Jewish heroine)

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Abbreviations/ Athalya Brenner/ Introduction/ Part I/ Esther: When Gender Politics Represent Power Politics/ Susan Niditch/ Esther: Folklore, Wisdom, Feminism and Authority/ Kristin de Troyer/ An Oriental Beauty Parlour: An Analysis of Esther 2.8-18 in the Hebrew, the Septuagint and the Second Greek Text/ Athalya Brenner/ Looking at Esther through the Looking Glass/ Alice Bach/ Mirror, Mirror in the Text: Reflections on Reading and Re-reading/ Timothy K. Beal/ Tracing Esther's Beginnings/ Bea Wyler/ Esther: The Incomplete Emancipation of a Queen/ Zefira Gitay/ Esther and the Queen's Throne/ Lillian R. Klein/ Honor and Shame in Esther/ Leila Leah Bronner/ Esther Revisited: An Aggadic Approach/ Diane Wolksstien/ Esther's Story/ Part II/ Judith: On Power, Leadership and Knowledge/ Amy-Jill Levine/ Sacrifice and Salvation: Otherness and Domestication in the Book of Judith/ Ijan Willem van Henten/ Judith as Alternative Leader: A Rereading of Judith 7-13/ Mieke Bal/ Head Hunting: 'Judith' on the Cutting Edge of Knowledge/ Part III/ Susanna: The Reader's Power/Knowledge — on Viewing a Jewish Woman/Community/ Jennifer A. Glancy/ The Accused: Susanna and her Readers/ Amy-Jill Levine/ 'Hemmed in on Every Side': Jews and Women in the Book of Susanna/ Bibliography