Title: Esther Through the Centuries
By: Jo Carruthers
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 320
Vendor: Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date: 2020

Dimensions: 9.00 X 6.00 X 0.80 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 1 ounce
ISBN: 1119004675
ISBN-13: 9781119004677
Series: Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries
Stock No: WW004677

Publisher's Description

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This interdisciplinary commentary ranges from early midrashic interpretation to contemporary rewritings introducing interpretations of the only biblical book not to mention God.

Unearths a wealth of neglected rewritings inspired by the story’s relevance to themes of nationhood, rebellion, providence, revenge, female heroism, Jewish identity, exile, genocide and ‘multiculturalism’
Reveals the various struggles and strategies used by religious commentators to make sense of this only biblical book that does not mention God
Asks why Esther is underestimated by contemporary feminist scholars despite a long history of subversive rewritings
Compares the most influential Jewish and Christian interpretations and interpreters
Includes an introduction to the book’s myriad representations in literature, music, and art
Published in the reception-history series, Blackwell Bible Commentaries

Author Bio

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Jo Carruthers teaches at Lancaster University, UK, and works across the disciplines of literary and religious studies. Her books include The Politics of Purim: Law, Sovereignty and Hospitality in the Aesthetic Afterlives of Esther (2020); England's Secular Scripture: Islamophobia and the Protestant Aesthetic (2011); and Literature and the Bible: A Reader (with Mark Knight and Andrew Tate, 2013).