Esther
The star of this week’s Purim story gets her point across because of the way she tells certain truths.
Jewish vulnerability and Jewish heroism.
A new exegesis and its flaws.
Hath not a Jew costumes?
A tale of two Mordecais and a failed attempt to create a Jewish statelet in western New York.
Cotton Mather’s Ornaments for the Daughters of Zion.
Ironic inversions unite two narratives of redemption.
Esther’s central question is whether the Jewish people will continue in exile.
Built for launching a campaign against Egypt.
Desperately seeking Shushan.
The Benjaminite rehabilitation.
From Church fathers to Palestinian propagandists.
Could she be Xerxes’ wife, Queen Amestris?
The political vision and theological insight of Esther speak compellingly to the dilemmas and opportunities of the present age.