[HANASHIR:5341] Re: Megillat Esther

[Ethan Bueno de Mesquita <mesquita...>]

Just a quick point of fact, the book of Esther is in the Tanach. 


Ethan
mesquita (at) fas(dot)harvard(dot)edu
>Janeen,
>
>
>Offensive?  Is it the constant drunkenness, the sex, the sexistness (?),
>the intrigue, the bloody conclusion, or the absence of God (God's name,
>actually)?  Many of our sages were offended too; that's why the book
>didn't make it into the TaNaCh.
>
>The very idea of a "politically correct" megillat Esther offends me.


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