Ketuvim

Tzvi Sinensky argues compellingly for a new way to understand the relationship between Shir HaShirim and Pesach in times of quarantine.

Mitchell First reviews Yehuda Landy's Purim and the Persian Empire.

In a fascinating analysis, Gavriel Lakser places the Megillah in the context of the overarching struggle between the Jewish people and Amalek.

How did Esther shape the way Puritans saw the ideal role of the contemporary woman? Cotton Mather, a major player in the Salem Witch Trials, had much to say in his Ornaments for the Daughters of Zion. Stuart Halpern of Yeshiva University explains, wishing us all a Puritan Purim.

Tzvi Sinensky contends that the rabbinic and feminist readings of Vashti are not diametrically opposed.

Tzvi Sinensky suggests that the Megillah itself confronts the question of Purim's legitimacy.

In this essay, written in honor of Yom Yerushalayim, Bezalel Naor explores the differing visions for the ideal state held by Plato and the Rabbis, Maimonides and Rabbi Nahman of Breslov.

Malka Simkovich hunts for Jewish texts in some unlikely places.

Jeffrey Burghauser's three poems draw on the biblical and rabbinic imagination.

Purim - Armed with feminist and political theory, Don Seeman probes the depths of Malbim's Esther commentary.