Esther and the Politics of Negotiation: Public and Private Spaces and the Figure of the Female Royal Counselor

Appendix: Suggested Reading

Appendix: Suggested Reading Bach, Alice. “Mirror, Mirror in the Text: Reflections on Reading and Rereading.” In Brenner, Feminist Companion to Esther, Judith, and Susanna, 81–86. Bal, Mieke. “Lots of Writing.” Semeia54 (1991): 77–102. Ben-Barak, Zafrira. “The Status and Right of the Gebîrâ.” Journal of Biblical Literature110 (1991): 23–34. Berg, Sandra. “After the Exile: God and History in the Books of Chronicles and Esther.” In The Divine Helmsman: Studies on God’s Control of Human Events Presented to Lou Silberman, edited by James L. Crenshaw and Samuel Sandmel, 107–27. New York: Ktav, 1980. Berquist, Jon L. Judaism in Persia’s Shadow.Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995. Bin-Nun, Shoshana R. The Tawananna in the Hittite Kingdom. Heidelberg, Ger.: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1975. Bronner, Leila. From Eve to Esther: Rabbinic Reconstructions of Biblical Women. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 1994. ———. “Reclaiming Esther: From Sex Object to Sage.” Jewish Biblical Quarterly 26 (1998): 3–11. Camp, Claudia V. “Becoming Canon: Women, Text, and Scribes in Proverbs and Sirach.” In Troxel, Friebel, and Magary, Seeking Out the Wisdom of the Ancients,371–87. ———. Wise, Strange, and Holy: The Strange Woman and the Making of the Bible. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 320. New York: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000. Collier, Jane F., and Michelle Z. Rosaldo. “Politics and Gender in Simple Societies.” In Sexual Meanings: The Cultural Construction of Gender and Sexuality, edited by Sherry B. Ortner and Harriet Whitehead, 275–329. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Craghan, John F. “Esther, Judith, Ruth: Paradigms for Human Liberation.” Biblical Theology Bulletin12 (1982): 11–19. Dalley, Stephanie. Esther’s Revenge at Susa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Durand, Jean-Marie. La femme dans le Proche-Orient antique. Paris: Éditions Recherche sur Les Civilisations, 1987. 137 Fontaine, Carole. “The Proof of the Pudding: Proverbs and Gender in the Performance Arena.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament29 (2004): 179–204. ———. “Queenly Proverb Performance: The Prayer of Puduhepa.” In The Listening Heart: Essays in Wisdom and the Psalms in Honor of Roland E. Murphy, edited by Kenneth G. Hoglund et al., 95–126. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 58. Sheffield, UK: JSOT Press, 1987. ———. “The Social Roles of Women in the World of Wisdom.” In Brenner, Feminist Companion to Wisdom Literature, 24–49. ———. “Visual Metaphors and Proverbs 5:15-20: Some Archaeological Reflections on Gendered Iconography.” In Troxel, Friebel, and Magary, Seeking Out the Wisdom of the Ancients,185–202. Fuchs, Esther. “Reclaiming the Hebrew Bible for Women: The Neoliberal Turn in Contemporary Scholarship.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion24 (2008): 45–65. Fulton, Deidre. “What Do Priests and Kings Have in Common? Priestly and Royal Succession Narratives in the Achaemenid Era.” In Judah and the Judeans in the Achaemenid Period: Negotiating Identity in an International Context,edited by Oded Lipschits, Gary Knoppers, and Manfred Oeming, 225–41. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2011. Gerleman, Gillis. Studien zu Esther: Stoff, Struktur, Stil, Sinn.Biblische Studien 48. Neukirchen-Vluyn, Ger.: Neukirchener Verlag, 1966. Hall, Edith. Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy. Oxford Classical Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Harris, Rivkah. “The Archive of the Sin Temple in Khafajah (Tutub).” Journal of Cuneiform Studies 9 (1955): 31–58. Heltzer, Michael. “The Neo-Assyrian Sakintu and the Biblical Sokenct (1 Reg. 1, 4).” In Durand, La femme dans le Proche-Orient Antique,87–90. ———. “The Persepolis Documents, the Lindos Chronicle, and the Book of Judith.” LaParola del Passato44 (1989): 81–101. Hubbard, Robert. “Vashti, Amestris, and Esther 1:9.” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft119 (2007): 259–71. Ilan, Tal. Integrating Women into Second Temple History.Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2001. Jobes, Karen. The Alpha-Text of Esther: Its Character and Relationship to the Masoretic Text. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 153. Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1996. 138 | Esther and the Politics of Negotiation Johnson, Sara R. “Novelistic Elements in Esther: Hellenistic, Jewish, or Greek?” Catholic Biblical Quarterly67 (2005): 571–89. Kamusiime, Beatrice Higiro. “Queen Mothers in the Old Testament: The Public Role of Women.” Yearbook of the European Society of Women in Theological Research 12 (2004): 155–67. Lyke, Larry. “‘And the Two of Them Struggled in the Field’: Intertextuality and the Interpretation of the Mashal of the Wise Woman of Tekoa in 2 Samuel 14:1-20.” PhD diss., Harvard University, 1995. ———. I Will Espouse You Forever: The Song...