Aaron Koller is Associate Professor of Near Eastern and Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University. He is the author of The Semantic Field of Cutting Tools in Biblical Hebrew (2013), Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought (2014), and Unbinding Isaac (forthcoming). Daniel Tsadik is Associate Professor of Sepharadic and Iranian Studies at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University. He is the author of Between Foreigners and Shi'is (2007), and Jews of Iran and Rabbinic Literature (forthcoming).
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Introduction Part I. The Provocation: Conventional Wisdom in Early Second Temple Judaism: 1. Setting the stage: the theological challenge of political stability 2. The movement of Ezra and Nehemiah 3. Authoring/editing: Joseph, Daniel, and God 4. Identity of a hero: Mordecai the Yehudi, scion of the house of Saul Part II. Entering the Fray: Esther as a Political Book: 5. Persian law and Persian king in the Book of Esther 6. Modeling heroes: Daniel, Esther, and Mordecai 7. Hero models: Joseph and Saul 8. Diaspora revisions: rethinking the Exodus and rethinking God Part III. Early Reactions: Rejection, Subversion, Correction: 9. A tense embrace: the reception of Esther in hellenistic Alexandria 10. Subvert or ignore: canonical re-contextualization and outright rejection of Esther 11. Criticism by adaptation: rewriting Esther in Hellenistic and Roman times 12. Adoption: Esther in the eastern diaspora and in the canon Part IV. Rabbinic Readings: Moving Esther from the Periphery to the Center: 13. Introduction to the rabbinic literature on Esther 14. Biblicizing Esther 15. Restoring God and Torah.
Introduction Part I. The Provocation: Conventional Wisdom in Early Second Temple Judaism: 1. Setting the stage: the theological challenge of political stability 2. The movement of Ezra and Nehemiah 3. Authoring/editing: Joseph, Daniel, and God 4. Identity of a hero: Mordecai the Yehudi, scion of the house of Saul Part II. Entering the Fray: Esther as a Political Book: 5. Persian law and Persian king in the Book of Esther 6. Modeling heroes: Daniel, Esther, and Mordecai 7. Hero models: Joseph and Saul 8. Diaspora revisions: rethinking the Exodus and rethinking God Part III. Early Reactions: Rejection, Subversion, Correction: 9. A tense embrace: the reception of Esther in hellenistic Alexandria 10. Subvert or ignore: canonical re-contextualization and outright rejection of Esther 11. Criticism by adaptation: rewriting Esther in Hellenistic and Roman times 12. Adoption: Esther in the eastern diaspora and in the canon Part IV. Rabbinic Readings: Moving Esther from the Periphery to the Center: 13. Introduction to the rabbinic literature on Esther 14. Biblicizing Esther 15. Restoring God and Torah.
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