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Vol. 2 The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary

Eliezer Segal

Open Access

Contents

Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Table of Contents
Publishers’ Preface
Acknowledgments
The Commentary
Chapter Seven: Mordecai
- Gathering the Virgins
- All of Them Refer to Him
- Benjamin or Judah?
- Crowned with Nobility
- “Two Families Provoke Each Other”
- Everyone Who Repudiates Idolatry Is Called a “Jew”
- All Your Words Are One
- “Carried Away from Jerusalem”
- Concluding Remarks
Chapter Eight: Esther
- “Hadassah, That Is, Esther”
- “For She Had Neither Father Nor Mother”
- “For His Own Daughter”
- “And Seven Maidens”
- “The Best”
- “Oil of Myrrh”
- Ahasurerus’ Praise
- “In the Sight of All...”
- “In the Tenth Month”
- The Women and the Virgins
- “Esther’s Feast”
- Rachel’s Silence
- Saul’s Silence
- The Holy One Apportions Greatness
- “The Commandment of Mordecai”
- From Ahasuerus to Mordecai
- “The King’s Chamberlains”
- Bigthan and Teresh
- Concluding Remarks
Chapter Nine: Haman
- Preventative Medicine
- Mordecai and the People of Mordecai
- Choosing a Date
- Haman’s Slanders
- Shekels for Shekels
- The King’s Ring
- The Ditch and the Mound
- Concluding Remarks
Chapter Ten: Prophets and Prophetesses
- How Many Prophets?
- The Seven Prophetesses
- 1. Sarah
- 2. Miriam
- 3. Deborah
- 4. Hannah
- 5. Abigail
- 6. Huldah
- 7. Esther
- Pride Is Not Becoming for Women
- Huldah’s Ancestry
- Who was Malachi?
- Four Beautiful Women
- Inspiring Passion
- Concluding Remarks
Chapter Eleven: Fighting Back
- Higher Than the King
- “Exceedingly Grieved”
- Hatach is Daniel
- “What It Was, and Why It Was”
- “They Told to Mordecai”
- “Not According to the Law”
- “And If I Perish. I Perish”
- “Mordecai Passed”
- The Sayings of R. Eleazar in the Name of R. Hanina
- 1. Donning Royalty
- 2. The Blessing of a Commoner
- 3. Water m the Pot
- 4. Quoting One’s Sources
- 5. The Loss of the Righteous
- 6. “Yet All This Availeth Me Nothing”
- 7. A Crown on the Head of the Righteous
- Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Index
- Sources
- Talmudic Rabbis
- Language and Terminology
- Biblical Figures
- Authors and Titles
- Subjects

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Published: 1994

Publisher: Brown Judaic Studies

ISBN(s)

978-1-951498-51-1 (ebook)
978-1-951498-52-8 (PDF)

Subject

Religion