Veiling Esther, Unveiling Her Story · The Reception of a Biblical Book in Islamic Lands by Silverstein, Adam J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Veiling Esther, Unveiling Her Story: The Reception of a Biblical Book in Islamic Lands Copyright Dedication Acknowledgements Contents Introduction

ESTHER—AN OVERVIEW

1: Haman in the Qur’ān

THE CURRENT DEBATE

ESTHER AND PHARAOH’S EGYPT

Haman and Pharaoh’s Shared Genealogy Reassessing our Assumptions

HAMAN’S S.ARḤ-TOWER ESTHER WITHOUT HAMAN, HAMAN WITHOUT ESTHER CONCLUSIONS

2: Esther in Islamic Historical Sources

1 IGNORING ESTHER 2 REPLACING HAMAN 3 IGNORING HAMAN

Ahashwerosh’s Campaign in India

4 EXCEPTIONS TO THE RULE CONCLUSIONS APPENDIX: A JUDEO-PERSIAN RETELLING OF THE ESTHER STORY

3: The Samaritan Esther

ABŪ ’L-FATḤ’S ACCOUNT ANALYSIS THE “PLOT OF THE EUNUCHS” IN THE TWO VERSIONS CONCLUSIONS

4: The Persian Esther “Midrash”

THE ABRAHAM CYCLE AND ESTHER HAMAN AND ABRAHAM AS “BROTHERS” DEATH BY FIRE OTHER BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS CONCLUSIONS

5: Esther and Ancient Persian Storytelling

ESTHER AND GREEK STORYTELLING ESTHER AND THE 1001 NIGHTS THE SHĀHNĀMA THE BAHMANNĀMA THE DĀRĀBNĀMA SAMAK-E ‘AYYĀR VĪS AND RĀMĪN CONCLUSIONS

6: “Bougaios”—The Islamic Evidence

PROFILING “BAGOAS” THE CONTRIBUTION OF ISLAMIC MATERIALS CONCLUSIONS

7: Why Did Mordecai Refuse to Bow?

PRELIMINARY REMARKS THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST THE HEBREW BIBLE THE NEW TESTAMENT AND EXTRA-BIBLICAL LITERATURE LATE ANTIQUE VERSIONS THE QUR’ĀNIC TEXTS COMPARING SATAN’S AND MORDECAI’S REFUSALS CONCLUSIONS

Conclusions

ISLAMIC STUDIES BIBLICAL STUDIES JEWISH STUDIES

APPENDIX: An Arab Feminist on Esther

The Text Analysis Fawwāz and the “Esther Source”

Bibliography Index of Biblical and Qur’anic Citations Index