This collection of essays considers the Book of Esther from a
literary and sociological perspective. In part one, Else Holt
outlines the main questions of historical-critical research in the
Book of Esther. She also discusses the theological meaning of a
biblical book without God, and examines how the book was
transmitted through the last centuries BCE. She also explores how
the Hebrew and Greek variants of the Book of Esther picture its
main character, Esther, the Jewish queen of Persia. In part two,
Holt offers deconstructive reading of themes hidden under the
surface-levels of the book. Chapters include discussions of
Esther’s initiation into her role as Persian queen; the
inter-textual conversation with two much later texts, The Arabian
Nights and The Story of O; and the relationship between Mordecai,
the Jew, and his opponent Haman, the Agagite, as a matter of
mimetic doublings. The last part of the book introduces the
sociological concept of ethnicity-construction as the backdrop for
perceiving the instigation of the Jewish festival Purim and the
violence connected to it, and looks at the Book of Esther as an
example of trauma literature. The concluding chapter analyses the
moral quality of the book of Esther, asking the question: Is it a
bedtime story?
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