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Vol. 1 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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  • 978-1-951498-47-4 (ebook)
  • 978-1-951498-48-1 (PDF)
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  • Cover
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Publishers’ Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introductory Remarks: The Babylonian Esther Midrash
    • The Midrash of the Synagogue and the Midrash of the Yeshivah
    • Midrash as an Oral Literature
    • Midrash as Exegesis: Esther Retold
    • Use of Parallel Materials
    • The Commentary
      • 1. Presentation of text in translation
      • 2. Variant readings
      • 3. Transliteration
      • 4. The Textual witnesses and their sigla
  • 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

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