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Aven, Tricia Miller.

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Three versions of Esther: Their relationship to anti-Semitic and feminist critique of the story.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Three versions of Esther: Their relationship to anti-Semitic and feminist critique of the story./
Author:	Aven, Tricia Miller.
Description:	298 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International73-11A(E).
Subject:	Religion, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3519856
ISBN:	9781267512192

Three versions of Esther: Their relationship to anti-Semitic and feminist critique of the story.
Aven, Tricia Miller.

Three versions of Esther: Their relationship to anti-Semitic and feminist critique of the story. - 298 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Claremont Graduate University, 2012.

Hebrew Esther tells the story of a woman who assumes responsibility to save her people from attempted genocide. Old Greek and Alpha Text Esther are examples of Jewish apologetic and polemic literature that addressed Greek and Latin perceptions of Jewish xenophobia and misanthropy, while advocating for the rights of Jews to live by their own laws and defend themselves against attempted annihilation. However, in spite of the fact that Hebrew Esther gives an account of a woman's leading role in preventing the destruction of the Jews of Persia and the authors of the Greek versions reinterpreted the Hebrew for the purpose of addressing anti-Semitic sentiment in the Greco-Roman world, the story of Esther is the object of significant anti-Semitic and feminist critique.

ISBN: 9781267512192Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017453
Religion, General.

Three versions of Esther: Their relationship to anti-Semitic and feminist critique of the story.
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520 $a Hebrew Esther tells the story of a woman who assumes responsibility to save her people from attempted genocide. Old Greek and Alpha Text Esther are examples of Jewish apologetic and polemic literature that addressed Greek and Latin perceptions of Jewish xenophobia and misanthropy, while advocating for the rights of Jews to live by their own laws and defend themselves against attempted annihilation. However, in spite of the fact that Hebrew Esther gives an account of a woman's leading role in preventing the destruction of the Jews of Persia and the authors of the Greek versions reinterpreted the Hebrew for the purpose of addressing anti-Semitic sentiment in the Greco-Roman world, the story of Esther is the object of significant anti-Semitic and feminist critique.
520 $a This dissertation uses a combination of critical methods to demonstrate how most scholarly critique contradicts the intent of all three authors. Chapters one and two establish, and validate, the intent of the author of Hebrew Esther to present the account of an attempted genocide of the Jews in a particular historical and literary context. Within this context, the author presents a message that was not only relevant historically, but is relevant to current issues of justice as well. Chapter three explains the text-critical and text-historical relationships of Hebrew, Old Greek and Alpha Text Esther in order to establish a foundation for subsequent literary comparisons. Chapter four demonstrates that the two Greek versions were written at a time when Jewish lives, as well as their way of life, were threatened with violent pogroms. And finally, chapter five uses literary criticism to illustrate how the changes made by the authors of the Greek versions are the features of the story that are used to support anti-Semitic and feminist critique.
520 $a In contrast to most past and current scholarship, this work refutes both forms of critique by highlighting Hebrew Esther's leadership role in the prevention of attempted genocide, and by identifying the message of the text as a timeless and universal issue of justice: the right and responsibility of humans to defend themselves against those who intend to murder.
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