This volume in the prestigious Feminist Companions series edited by Athalya Brenner covers this fascinating figures of Esther, Judith, and Susanna.
Abbreviations
Athalya Brenner
Introduction
Part I
Esther: When Gender Politics Represent Power Politics /Susan Niditch
Esther: Folklore, Wisdom, Feminism and Authority /Kristin de Troyer
An Oriental Beauty Parlour: An Analysis of Esther 2.8-18 in the Hebrew, the Septuagint and the Second Greek Text /Athalya Brenner
Looking at Esther through the Looking Glass /Alice Bach
Mirror, Mirror in the Text: Reflections on Reading and Re-reading /Timothy K. Beal
Tracing Esther's Beginnings /Bea Wyler
Esther: The Incomplete Emancipation of a Queen /Zefira Gitay
Esther and the Queen's Throne /Lillian R. Klein
Honor and Shame in Esther/Leila Leah Bronner
Esther Revisited: An Aggadic Approach /Diane Wolksstien
Esther's Story
Part II
Judith: On Power, Leadership and Knowledge /Amy-Jill Levine
Sacrifice and Salvation: Otherness and Domestication in the Book of Judith /Ijan Willem van Henten
Judith as Alternative Leader: A Rereading of Judith 7-13 /Mieke Bal
Head Hunting: 'Judith' on the Cutting Edge of Knowledge
Part III
Susanna: The Reader's Power/Knowledge - on Viewing a Jewish Woman/Community /Jennifer
A. Glancy
The Accused: Susanna and her Readers /Amy-Jill Levine
'Hemmed in on Every Side': Jews and Women in the Book of Susanna
Bibliography
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