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Forschungen zum Alten Testament 2. Reihe Edited by
Konrad Schmid (Zürich) Â Mark S. Smith (Princeton) Andrew Teeter (Harvard)
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Thomas Wetzel
Violence and Divine Victory in the Book of Esther
Mohr Siebeck
Thomas Wetzel, born 1967; 1990 BA philosophy; 1994 MA and 2000 PhD in English literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; 2006 MA in theology, Marquette University; 2015 ThD, Harvard Divinity School; currently assistant professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Loyola University Chicago. orcid.org/ 0000-0003-1022-4406
ISBN 978-3-16-160660-1 / eISBN 978-3-16-160661-8 DOI 10.1628/978-3-16-160661-8 ISSN 1611-4914 / eISSN 2568-8367 (Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 2. Reihe) The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliographie; detailed bibliographic data are available at http://dnb.dnb.de. © 2022 Mohr Siebeck Tübingen, Germany. www.mohrsiebeck.com This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form (beyond that permitted by copyright law) without the publisher’s written permission. This applies particularly to reproductions, translations and storage and processing in electronic systems. The book was printed on non-aging paper by Laupp & Göbel in Gomaringen and bound by Buchbinderei Nädele in Nehren. Printed in Germany.
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