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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
Fortress Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | Emerging scholars.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| 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 Helle. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University. Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781451469868 1451469861 |
