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Vol. 1 The Babylonian Esther Midrash: A Critical Commentary

Eliezer Segal

Open Access

Contents

Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Table of Contents
Publishers’ Preface
Acknowledgements
Introductory Remarks: The Babylonian Esther Midrash
Chapter One: Prologue
- “Vayhi” Means Sorrow
- Exceptions
- Rav Ashi’s Solution
- Amoz and Amaziah Were Brothers
- The Place of the Ark
- Concluding Remarks
Chapter Two: The Proems
- Proem #1
- Proem #2
- Proem #3
- Proem #4
- Proem #5
- Proem #6
- Proem #7
- Proem #8
- Proem #9
- Proem #10
- Proem #11
- Proem #12
- Proems #13-#14
- Rav’s “Proem”
- Samuel’s Proem
- Concluding Remarks
  - 1. Sources of the Proem-List
  - 2. Ideological Themes
  - 3. Literary Perspectives
Chapter Three: Ahasuerus
- Etymologies
- “This is Ahasuerus...”
- “Which Reigned...”
- “From India Even Unto Ethiopia...”
- “...Over Seven and Twenty and a Hundred Provinces”
- “Three Reigned in the Vault”
- Concluding Remarks
Chapter Four: Ahasuerus’ Calculations
- “His Mind Became Settled”
- Belshazzar’s Error
- Contradictions
- “Cyrus His Anointed’
- Concluding Remarks
Chapter Five: The Feast
- “Persia and Media...Media and Persia”
- “His Excellent Majesty”
- The Second Feast
- Why Were They Deserving of Extinction?
- “The Court of the Garden”
- “Ḥur, Karpas and Tekhelet..”
- “...Bahat and Shesh...”
- Repeating with the Vessels
- “Wine in Abundance”
- “According to the Law”
- Concluding Remarks
Chapter Six: Vashti
- “The Royal House”
- “The Seventh Day”
- “But the Queen Vashti Refused”
- “Very Wroth”
- “...Which Knew the Times”
- “And the Next to Him...”
- Memucan Is Haman
- A Commoner Jumps to the Front
- “Every Man Should Bear Rule in His Own House”
- Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Index
- Sources
- Talmudic Rabbis
- Language and Terminology
- Biblical Figures
- Authors and Titles
- Subjects

Citable Link

Published: 1994

Publisher: Brown Judaic Studies

ISBN(s)

978-1-951498-48-1 (PDF)
978-1-951498-47-4 (ebook)

Subject

Religion

Resources

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