Empire and Gender in LXX Esther

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Empire and Gender in LXX Esther
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Author(s)
Stone, Meredith J.
Year
2018
Journal / Book Title || Series Title
Early Judaism and Its Literature
Issue / Series Volume
48
Publisher
SBL Press
Place of Publication
Atlanta
Work type
Label
04/03/2019
Abstract

Empire and Gender in LXX Esther foregrounds and highlights empire as the central lens in this provocative new reading of Esther. This book provides a unique synchronic reading of LXX Esther with the Additions, allowing the presence and negotiation of imperial power to be further illuminated throughout the story’s plot. Stone explores and demonstrates how performances of gender are inextricably intertwined with the exertion and negotiation of imperial power portrayed in LXX Esther and offers examples of connections to the range of imperial power experienced by Jewish people during the late Second Temple period.

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