Full Description
This book integrates womanist biblical interpretation with trauma theory while closely examining survival and the language of survival in the Hebrew Bible. While survival is often a theme lifted when exploring Esther, the focus is typically on Jewish survival. This books centers the experiences of non-Jewish women and girls, specifically the virgin girls taken with Esther and Zeresh, the wife of Haman, amplifying their presence and reading their narratives alongside the autobiographies of Maya Angelou and Lezley McFadden to create a survival narrative that allows the reader to reimagine these often-overlooked girls and women.
Contents
Preface
Khina's Story
Introduction
Chapter 1 What Is Survival?
Chapter 2 Lexicon of Survival
Esther's Story of the Young Virgins
Chapter 3 Our Girls Are Not Safe
Maya Angelou's Story
Chapter 4 Angelou and Esther 2
Zeresh's Stories
Chapter 5 The Struggle of an Implied Survivor
Lezley McSpadden's Story
Chapter 6 Implied Survival: McSpadden and Esther 9
Conclusion
Appendix
