Esther and the Politics of Negotiation: Public and Private Spaces and the Figure of the Female Royal Counselor

by Rebecca S. Hancock

Was Esther uniquean 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451465629
• ISBN13: 9781451465624
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"