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Journal Article
Esther the Hero: Going beyond \Wisdom\ in Heroic Narratives
2008
Overview
Kenneth Craig's interpretation of Esther as a carnivalesque story, based on Mikhail Bakhtin's approach to literary criticism, has been influential, and it has been wholeheartedly followed by Adele Berlin.6 For Bakhtin, the carnivalesque in literature represents a folk narrative that at a surface level inverts social norms and power structures but at the same time reifies these same power relationships.7 If Esther is read in this light, it is an inherently conservative tale, created for the enjoyment of a Jewish Diaspora audience but at the same time not substantially attacking existing power structures. The MT version of Esther, according to him, differs from the original court legend because of the addition of the etiology of Purim, the several climaxes, the farcical elements, and the fact that the action of the story takes place throughout the empire rather than just at court.11 Although Wills's reconstruction of the textual history of the book is plausible, it clearly reflects the difficulty in defining the genre of Esther.\\n VI.
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Catholic Biblical Association of America
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