June 18 Lecture (Esther)

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   Poglavje 1: Hey, welcome back. 299s · Speaker 1

   Hey, welcome back. In this video, we are talking about the Book of Esther. So the Book of Esther is in the Hebrew Bible, but in different sections, depending upon if you're looking at a Tanakh or an Old Testament. And the Tanakh is in the K…

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   Poglavje 2: see sort of periods within the timeline. 64s · Speaker 2

   see sort of periods within the timeline. There's the exilic period as we've discussed, and then there's the pre -exilic period, and then there's the post -exilic period. We are going into the post -exilic period. So in 538 BCE, the Persians…

3. 6:04

   Poglavje 3: And it is also in Jerusalem. 303s · Speaker 1

   And it is also in Jerusalem. It is at this point in the timeline that we get a shift in terminology. The Book of Esther, for example, you'll notice, is one that does not have the writers refer to their culture as Israelite, but instead as J…

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   Poglavje 4: not necessarily in Hebrew, but sometimes in Greek. 231s · Speaker 1

   not necessarily in Hebrew, but sometimes in Greek. And Yahweh, there's no... translation really clearly of Yahweh in this Hebrew to Greek. Instead, the Lord kind of more so has the translation. So in Greek, so in Hebrew, Yahweh, I'm sorry, …

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   Poglavje 5: drinking party um and uh he asks for his for queen vashti his wife um and meanwhile you should know sure he has a wife there's a queen but he also has access to um you know all the women of his of his pleasing um and he asks vashti to show herself to um uh him and his boys and it's often interpreted that he's asking her to do this wearing only her crown nothing else and she says no um and he throws such a a fit about it that he throws her out and we don't ever get to know what happens to her um that was part of the violence in this text we are are asked to imagine uh what may have happened to her and what he um how he disposed of her um and in her place he decides to have a beauty pageant to pick his next queen um And he also sends out a decree to all the people of Persia that wives must obey their husbands. 299s · Speaker 2

   drinking party um and uh he asks for his for queen vashti his wife um and meanwhile you should know sure he has a wife there's a queen but he also has access to um you know all the women of his of his pleasing um and he asks vashti to show …

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   Poglavje 6: what Mordechai did. 299s · Speaker 1

   what Mordechai did. So remember I said pocket what Mordechai did and the overhearing to kill the king and, you know, made sure that didn't happen. Ahasuerus is all of a sudden like, oh my God, we didn't, we didn't think Mordechai. So Ahasue…

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   Poglavje 7: I will say that there are different sort of ways to relate to the story in the world in front of the text. 69s · Speaker 1

   I will say that there are different sort of ways to relate to the story in the world in front of the text. Christians do not take on the celebration of Purim that the story talks about, whereas Jews in the world in front of the text do. all…

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   Poglavje 8: festival, carnival, that often takes place at synagogues. 302s · Speaker 2

   festival, carnival, that often takes place at synagogues. And those carnivals are filled with games, often very kid -focused games, even a pie the rabbi or dunk the rabbi, dunk the leader of the synagogue to just kind of bring about, to kin…

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   Poglavje 9: There's also, getting to the point of this class more broadly, God and the human experience, there's also a very different interpretation about God in relation to the book of Esther. 300s · Speaker 1

   There's also, getting to the point of this class more broadly, God and the human experience, there's also a very different interpretation about God in relation to the book of Esther. The book of Esther, contra all the texts that we've read …

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    Poglavje 10: Is the absence of God because the author is trying to say you can find God in absence or is the absence of God? 301s · Speaker 1

    Is the absence of God because the author is trying to say you can find God in absence or is the absence of God? full -on absence, or is it something else? Up to you to decide. I would just implore you to think about how, wherever you land i…

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    Poglavje 11: And in ancient carnivals and even medieval carnivals going into France, which is bringing up the hunchback of Notre Dame, oftentimes in carnivals, or specific carnivals, I should say, there were such reversals within the carnival that there would be a mock king crowned. 160s · Speaker 1

    And in ancient carnivals and even medieval carnivals going into France, which is bringing up the hunchback of Notre Dame, oftentimes in carnivals, or specific carnivals, I should say, there were such reversals within the carnival that there…