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Author:
Carruthers, Jo, author.
Title:
The politics of Purim : law, sovereignty and hospitality in the aesthetic afterlives of Esther / Jo Carruthers.
Publisher:
T&T Clark,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
xi, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Bibel--Ester
Purim.
Purim--Political aspects.
Purim--Social aspects.
Purim--Philosophy.
Purim.
Souvera˜nita˜t
Gastfreundschaft
Politik
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-202) and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction: The politics of persecution -- Carnival, lawlessness and sovereignty -- The state of exception, amalek and sovereign hospitality -- The anti-memorial of remembering to forget -- The art of execution in the illuminated Megillah -- Bare life and sovereignty -- Law's limitations -- Creaturely sovereignty -- Esther the good host and the good sovereign -- Mordecai's mourning -- 'Shalokh mones re-mixed': an Aftselakhis Purimsphil.
Series:
Scriptural traces: critical perspectives on the reception and influences of the Bible ; 25
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 694
T & T Clark library of biblical studies
ISBN:
0567691861
9780567691866
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1113461522
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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