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

By Rebecca S. Hancock

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 char

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Release date: Sep 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781451469868

Rebecca S. Hancock

Rebecca S. Hancock teaches biblical studies at St. Mary’s Seminary and University and Ecumenical Institute of Theology in Baltimore. This work is a revision of her dissertation in the Ancient Near Eastern Studies Department of Harvard University, completed under the direction of Jon Levenson.

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