This book situates the book of Esther in the intellectual history of Ancient Judaism and provides a new understanding of its purpose.

What if the way the book of Esther has been taught to us in church and retold to us in films, cartoons, and romance novels has missed the original point of the

This book explores the political crisis that erupts when the Persian government falls to fanatics and a Jewish insider goes rogue.

This is the first book-length attempt to focus on female biblical figures in the ancient rabbinic writings of midrash and Talmud. Primary rabbinic sources emplo