Writing Esther: How do Writing, Power and Gender Intersect in the Megillah and its Literary Afterlife?

There are two instances in the entire Hebrew Bible in which women feature as the to write. “One is Esther (Esther 9:29) and the other is:” כתב subject of the verb Jezebel (1 Kgs 21:8). This paper takes this fact as a starting point from which to illuminate the narrative and thematic junctures of wri...

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Autor principal:	Wood Sorrel
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Publicado:	De Gruyter 2021
Materias:	esther writing textuality feminism authorship hebrew bible Religion (General) BL1-50
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:bd87bdc7f1324c0eba42f728435620622021-12-05T14:11:01ZWriting Esther: How do Writing, Power and Gender Intersect in the Megillah and its Literary Afterlife?2300-657910.1515/opth-2020-0146https://doaj.org/article/bd87bdc7f1324c0eba42f728435620622021-02-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/opth-2020-0146https://doaj.org/toc/2300-6579There are two instances in the entire Hebrew Bible in which women feature as the to write. “One is Esther (Esther 9:29) and the other is:” כתב subject of the verb Jezebel (1 Kgs 21:8). This paper takes this fact as a starting point from which to illuminate the narrative and thematic junctures of writing, power and gender in Esther and its literary afterlife. It utilizes the hermeneutical framework of feminist literary theory, as well as drawing upon narratology and linguistic theory related to gender and power, and textual theory related to metatextuality and intertextuality, in order to explore the ways in which the narrator, the canonization process and the reception history of the text have functioned to constrain and restrain Esther’s authorial identity and status, and conversely the places and spaces where it has been developed and emphasised. Key areas of exploration include the writing culture of the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic periods, creative rewritings of Esther in the Targums and in Rabbinic Haggadah, and a consideration of the implications of the fact that Esther and Jezebel are the only explicitly identified female writers in the Hebrew Bible (Esther. (9:29, 1 Kings 21:8–9)).Wood SorrelDe Gruyterarticleestherwritingtextualityfeminismauthorshiphebrew bibleReligion (General)BL1-50ENOpen Theology, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 35-59 (2021)
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description	There are two instances in the entire Hebrew Bible in which women feature as the to write. “One is Esther (Esther 9:29) and the other is:” כתב subject of the verb Jezebel (1 Kgs 21:8). This paper takes this fact as a starting point from which to illuminate the narrative and thematic junctures of writing, power and gender in Esther and its literary afterlife. It utilizes the hermeneutical framework of feminist literary theory, as well as drawing upon narratology and linguistic theory related to gender and power, and textual theory related to metatextuality and intertextuality, in order to explore the ways in which the narrator, the canonization process and the reception history of the text have functioned to constrain and restrain Esther’s authorial identity and status, and conversely the places and spaces where it has been developed and emphasised. Key areas of exploration include the writing culture of the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic periods, creative rewritings of Esther in the Targums and in Rabbinic Haggadah, and a consideration of the implications of the fact that Esther and Jezebel are the only explicitly identified female writers in the Hebrew Bible (Esther. (9:29, 1 Kings 21:8–9)).
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title	Writing Esther: How do Writing, Power and Gender Intersect in the Megillah and its Literary Afterlife?
title_short	Writing Esther: How do Writing, Power and Gender Intersect in the Megillah and its Literary Afterlife?
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Writing Esther: How do Writing, Power and Gender Intersect in the Megillah and its Literary Afterlife?

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