The Book of Esther: Reflection on a Diasporic Literature in Judaism in the Period of the Second Temple
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4 novembre 2015
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Jean-Daniel Macchi, « The Book of Esther: Reflection on a Diasporic Literature in Judaism in the Period of the Second Temple », La lettre du Collège de France, ID : 10.4000/lettre-cdf.2718
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The Book of Esther constitutes a piece of literature emanating from the Jewish communities of Antiquity, which tells the mainly fictional story of a young Jewish woman who lived at the court of the Persian king Xerxes and managed to save her people from a pogrom. The analysis of this biblical text furthers our understanding of the issues and challenges confronting the groups that produced it between the third and the first centuries BCE, in a world largely dominated by Hellenistic culture. G...