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Trauma and Survival in the Hebrew Bible

A Womanist Reading of Esther

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Trauma and Survival in the Hebrew Bible

A Womanist Reading of Esther

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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.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 What Is Survival?
Chapter 2 Lexicon of Survival
Chapter 3 Our Girls Are Not Safe
Chapter 4 Angelou and Esther 2
Chapter 5 The Struggle of an Implied Survivor
Chapter 6 Implied Survival: McSpadden and Esther 9
Conclusion
Appendix

Product details

Published 05 Feb 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 208
ISBN 9781666971453
Imprint T&T Clark
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Series Feminist Studies and Sacred Texts
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Kamilah Hall Sharp

Kamilah Hall Sharp is Director of the Doctor of Mi…

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