Endnote 10 – Esther Not Judith

Alice Laffey, An Introduction to the Old Testament: A Feminist Perspective (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988), p. 216; Esther Fuchs, “The Status and Role of Female Heroines in the Biblical Narrative,” in Women in the Hebrew Bible, ed. Alice Bach (New York/London: Routledge, 1999), p. 80; Kristin de Troyer, “An Oriental Beauty Parlour: An Analysis of Esther 2:8–18 in the Hebrew, the Septuagint and the Second Greek Text,” in A Feminist Companion to Esther, Judith and Susanna, ed. Athalya Brenner (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1995), p. 55.