The Exile of Kish: Syntax and History in Esther 2.5–6

Recent studies have relied on Esther 2.5–6 to establish the story as fiction or as farce, a way of reading the text that was also the case in ancient and medieval interpretations. This article proposes that that reading strategy ignores the syntactic ambiguity in these verses, an ambiguity that allo...

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Main Author: Koller, Aaron J. 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2012
In: Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2012, Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 45-56
Further subjects:B Persian Period
B Esther
B relative clauses
B Hebrew syntax
B Mordecai
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