Monday, March 8, 2021

Kosher Adultery? The Mordecai-Esther-Ahasuerus Triangle in Midrash and

 https://www.academia.edu/22114995/Kosher_Adultery_The_Mordecai_Esther_Ahasuerus_Triangle_in_Midrash_and?email_work_card=reading-history

 The idea that Mordecai and Esther were a married couple has had a long history inthe Jewish tradition, originating in the Septuagint, ¯flourishing in the Talmud, and continuing on into the commentaries of the sixteenth century and beyond.

 The fact that it is elaborated in the Babylonian Talmud will ensure that it will never be forgotten   or  overlooked. Indeed, the attitude    expressed with regard to   the e         midrashic traditions by Alkabetz and his contemporaries marks a new phase in the treatment of this material in exegetical works and brings it back into the mainstream. From this period on the apologetic attempts to explain away, justify, or mitigate the more provocative elements of this tradition proliferate. Indeed, this phenomenon exemplifies a general trend to elevate aggadic midrash to near-canonical status, which is still prevalent in traditional circles to this very day.

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