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Vol. 2 The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary

Eliezer Segal 1994 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license © Brown University
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  • 978-1-951498-51-1 (ebook)
  • 978-1-951498-52-8 (PDF)
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  • Religion
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Cover
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Publishers’ Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • The Commentary
    • 1. Presentation of text in translation
    • 2. Variant readings
    • 3. Transliteration
    • 4. The Textual witnesses and their sigla
  • 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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