Esther, Drag, and Agency: Gender, Ethnicity, Power, and Queer Time in the Book of Esther and its Jewish Interpretations
The character of Esther in the biblical book named for her is often read in scholarship as passive, overshadowed by her relative Mordechai, merely complying with his directives. This essay uses queer-theoretical vocabularies of drag and passing to allow for a different reading of Esther, one in whic...
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The National Association of Professors of Hebrew
2022
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Hebrew studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 63, Pages: 99-118 |
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Esther Biblical character
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