| You can say any interpretation you want as long you don`t read the story, which is clearly the feminists` faux pas here. How do you look after 3 days of fasting? Not your most appealing, yet that`s when Esther goes before the king to save the Jews(ch. 5). The only time sex comes into the picture is when she is forced into the contest and forced to be beautified and slept with on penalty of death (ch. 2). Vashti was not a feminist - that claim is a crime against intellectual honesty by reading into an ancient story 20th century mores (some might say baggage), which is absurd. Vashti was a descendant of Nebuchadnezzar and the daughter-in-law of Belshazzar, while Ahaseurus was an interloper to the throne trying to ingratiate himself to his people. Also, Vashti refuses "the word of the king that was in the hands of the servants"(ch. 1). Why not just say "the word of the king"? The point is that she disagreed not with the request itself but the way it was made, which she felt was a dishonor |
|
