There are two instances in the entire Hebrew Bible in which women feature as the to write. “One is Esther (Esther 9:29) and the other is:” כתב subject of the verb Jezebel (1 Kgs 21:8). This paper takes this fact as a starting point from which to illuminate the narrative and thematic junctures of writing, power and gender in Esther and its literary afterlife. It utilizes the hermeneutical framework of feminist literary theory, as well as drawing upon narratology and linguistic theory related to gender and power, and textual theory related to metatextuality and intertextuality, in order to explore the ways in which the narrator, the canonization process and the reception history of the text have functioned to constrain and restrain Esther’s authorial identity and status, and conversely the places and spaces where it has been developed and emphasised. Key areas of exploration include the writing culture of the Late Persian and Early Hellenistic periods, creative rewritings of Esther in the Targums and in Rabbinic Haggadah, and a consideration of the implications of the fact that Esther and Jezebel are the only explicitly identified female writers in the Hebrew Bible (Esther. (9:29, 1 Kings 21:8–9)).

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写作以斯帖记：梅吉拉及其文学来世中的写作，权力和性别如何相交？

在整个希伯来圣经中有两个例子，其中女性是写作的代表。“一个是以斯帖（以斯帖记9:29），另一个是：”动词Jezebel的主语（1 Kgs 21：8）。本文以这一事实为出发点，阐明了以斯帖及其文学来世的叙述，主题，写作，力量和性别的交汇点。它利用女性主义文学理论的解释学框架，并借鉴了与性别和权力有关的叙事学和语言学理论，以及与超文本性和互文性有关的文本理论，以探索叙事者，规范化过程和叙事方式。文本的接受历史起到了约束和约束以斯帖的作者身份和地位的作用，相反，文本的接受历史也起到了限制和约束作用，并且反过来限制了该文本的开发和强调位置。