Empowering Women Through Scripture
1 Future verse here. Esther 1:1
Book of Esther
List of Reading & Resources:
Articles
“On Esther and the Subversive Scriptures” by Kat Armas
“The Power Paradigms of Queen Esther” by Rishe Groner
“Esther” by Martien A. Halvorson-Taylor
“Vashti and Esther: A Feminist Perspective” by Wendy Amsellem
“Esther: Actually” series by Rachel Held Evans
“Was I, Esther, a Feminist?”
Books
“Esther: Who am I? A Mestiza for God’s Mission” (Chapter 1, pp.15-24) by Kristy Garza Robinson in Hermanas: Deepening Our Identity and Growing Our Influence (2019)
“Ester: About Resistance against Anti-Semitism and Sexism” by Klara Butting (pp. 207-220) in Feminist Biblical Interpretation edited by Luise Schottroff and Marie-Theres Wacker (2012)
Becoming Brave: Finding the Courage to Pursue Racial Justice Now by Brenda Salter McNeil (2020)
“Eschewing Esther/Embracing Esther: The Changing Representation of Biblical Heroines” (pp. 207-219) by Gail Twersky Reimer in Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture edited by Joyce Antler (1997)