Classics and Religious Studies, Department of
Date of this Version
2003
Document Type
Article
Citation
From: The Book of Esther in Modern Research, ed. Leonard Greenspoon & Sidnie White Crawford (T&T Clark, 2003).
Abstract
The last decade of the twentieth century was marked by an unusual number of articles, books and commentaries on the book of Esther. While the reason for this sudden upsurge in interest was slightly mysterious, it was clear that interest in the book was peaking, and the time seemed ripe, in the year 2000, for a conference devoted solely to the book of Esther. And so it was in April of 2000 that, as Carey Moore put it, 'a decree was sent, and the scholars were gathered', at the Esther 2000 symposium in Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska. The present volume bears witness to the fruit of that symposium.