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Book review: Esther Keeps the Score: Trauma, body and politics in the Hebrew Bible by Alexiana Fry

Book review: Esther Keeps the Score: Trauma, body and politics in the Hebrew Bible by Alexiana Fry

Thursday, August 27, 2026
ALEXIANA FRY’s Esther Keeps the Score offers an innovative reading of Esther through the lenses of migration studies, marginalisation, diaspora theory, and trauma studies. Particularly compelling is her challenge to interpretations that celebrate ...