Esther and the Politics of Negotiation

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Esther and the Politics of Negotiation is written by Rebecca S. Hancock and published by Fortress Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1451465629 (ISBN 10) and 9781451465624 (ISBN 13).

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, that because of the patrimonial character of ancient Jewish society, the state was often organized along familial lines. The presence of women in roles of queen consort or queen is therefore a key political, and not simply domestic, feature.