{"title":"A House of Her Own: The Tactical Deployment of Strategy in Esther","authors":"Paul K.-K. Cho","doi":"10.15699/jbl.1404.2021.2","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues that Esther, as befits her intersectional identity, employs a combination of tactics and strategies, as defined by Michel de Certeau, to navigate and dismantle the overlapping power structures of the Persian empire to deliver Jews from death.","PeriodicalId":15251,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Biblical Literature","volume":"140 1","pages":"663 - 682"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Biblical Literature","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.15699/jbl.1404.2021.2","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"RELIGION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article argues that Esther, as befits her intersectional identity, employs a combination of tactics and strategies, as defined by Michel de Certeau, to navigate and dismantle the overlapping power structures of the Persian empire to deliver Jews from death.