JOURNAL ARTICLE

The Book of Esther: Notes for a Traditional Reading.

  • Published In: Partial Answers, 2023, v. 21, n. 2. P. 209 1 of 3

  • Database: Humanities Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Rojtman, Betty 3 of 3

Abstract

The paper offers a comment, from the platform of traditional Jewish exegesis, on some of the issues that Magdalen Ki's article deals with from a more presentist perspective. It highlights the subtlety of the rabbinical approach as well as its modernity and the complexity of the issues that it raises — social (the condition of women and of minorities), philosophical (the absence of God) and symbolic (intertextual reminiscences). In particular, it is difficult to understand the armed struggle with which this story ends without placing it back into its precise historical context. This episode, which tells of the first organized genocidal project directed against the Jewish people, will serve as a paradigm for the whole history of antisemitism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Partial Answers. 2023/06, Vol. 21, Issue 2, p209
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:15653668
  • DOI:10.1353/pan.2023.a899740
  • Accession Number:164692718
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