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, that...

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Main Author: Hancock, Rebecca S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2013]
Series:Emerging scholars.
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Online Access:CONNECT