Fountain, A. Kay: Literary and Empirical Readings of the Books of Esther

This volume includes a literary analysis of the three different texts of the biblical Book of Esther that indicates trends in their literary characteristics. This book also includes an empirical analysis of the reactions of real readers to the different texts. The empirical analysis indicates that real readers recognize some of the differences in the texts which were perceived from the literary analysis and that there are differences in perception depending on whether the readers were familiar with the biblical story or not. The data also enabled an analysis of the difference between male and female readers revealing that there was remarkably little difference in perception related to the gender of the reader. X,314 Seiten mit Abb., gebunden (Studies in Biblical Literature; Vol. 43/Peter Lang Verlag 2002) Mängelexemplar/near mint