Esther Keeps the Score
Trauma, Body and Politics in the Hebrew Bible
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2026
SCM Press (Verlag)
9780334066866 (ISBN)
SCM Press (Verlag)
9780334066866 (ISBN)
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We can no longer read biblical texts that include explicit and implicit depictions of violence without awareness of trauma. In Esther Keeps the Score, Alexiana Fry challenges conventional interpretations of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament book of Esther. It offers a full treatment of the violence found within, seen through a trauma-informed lens, acknowledging the many shifting contexts and power structures that create significant effect on the characters in the story. Through an analysis of gender and ethnic minoritization in diaspora settings, as well as how this shows itself in emotional and somatic compulsive responses, the book of Esther can be read afresh with empathic eyes.
Understanding Esther with a holistic view on how trauma is created, sustained, and perpetuated in both individuals and collectives due to oppression causes readers to necessarily consider stopping the cycle, both in the book and in their own worlds and lives. A must-read for Old Testament and trauma scholars, preachers, as well as anyone seeking to better understand how trauma operates in biblical narratives, this book reshapes our understanding of Esther's story and its implications for survival in a hostile world of patriarchy, sexism, misogyny and racism.
Understanding Esther with a holistic view on how trauma is created, sustained, and perpetuated in both individuals and collectives due to oppression causes readers to necessarily consider stopping the cycle, both in the book and in their own worlds and lives. A must-read for Old Testament and trauma scholars, preachers, as well as anyone seeking to better understand how trauma operates in biblical narratives, this book reshapes our understanding of Esther's story and its implications for survival in a hostile world of patriarchy, sexism, misogyny and racism.
Dr Alexiana Fry is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Copenhagen for the project ‘Divergent Views of Diaspora in Ancient Judaism’. She received her PhD in Old Testament from Stellenbosch University in South Africa in 2021, where she began her specialisation at the intersection of gender, trauma and migration studies in biblical interpretation.
1.Introduction – the Book of Esther and Trauma:
2.Exile, Diaspora, and Trauma: Do I Belong?
3.“If I am Pleasing”: Esther and the Fawn Response
4.Self-Defense, Revenge, and the Added Day of Killing in Esther 9: This Isn’t Fun Anymore
5.Silenced, Not Hidden: Harems, Amalekites, Ahaseurus, and the Eunuchs?
6.Not Redeeming, nor Remaining, But Re-Minding the Book of Esther
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.3.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte |
| ISBN-13 | 9780334066866 / 9780334066866 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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