Rebecca S Hancock: 1 book
Esther and the Politics of Negotiation
Public and Private Spaces and the Figure of the Female Royal Counselor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Was Esther unique—an anomaly in patriarchal society? Conventionally, scholars see ancient Israelite and Jewish women as excluded from the public world, their power concentrated instead in the domestic realm and exercised through familial structures. Rebecca S. Hancock demonstrates, in contrast,...
